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Visual studio code free12/30/2023 The only thing that you should be aware of is that, due to the VSCode Marketplace Terms of Use, some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium. You can tell VSCode is on the left because it asks to spy on you you to help make VSCode better. VSCode on the left and VSCodium on the right. So, beside the telemetry stuff, what’s the difference between VSCode and VSCodium? Visually there is none. VSCodium is not a fork of VSCode but a repository of scripts that automatically builds VSCode’s repository into a ready to use binary without Microsoft’s telemetry code. You can use VSCodium, a truly free/libre open source version of VSCode. But if you don’t your option would be to compile VS Code from source yourself. Well yes, if you trust Microsoft, you can. Right, but you can choose to disable the telemetry in VSCode. Therefore, you generate a "clean" build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. And, I know this might comes as a shock but, it contains telemetry/tracking. HOWEVER the binaries that Microsoft provides, and most people use, are NOT open source and licensed under this license. It’s true that the source code is available on GitHub under MIT license. And that’s because it’s an excellent editor, however it is NOT open source. Visual Studio Code is almost always on every list. I dare you to find a list of “open source text editoris” without Atom, Visual Studio Code and Sublime ( all of them or at least 2 ).
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