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I wonder if this will also impact VSCodium. I use it specifically to avoid a lot of the crap that Microsoft is trying to do while still being able to use the editor and plugins.

They have not released 1.107 yet, doing a quick scan I am not seeing anything on the VSCodium github.

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Intellicode being (officially) deprecated will impact VSCodium, yes. I too am more concerned about copilot being further “needed” or required in my VSCode fork. It’s already the biggest pain in the butt I’ve ever had to deal with in the context of VSCodium. I am not excited for the future.

even then using vscodium does not free you from the grasps. vscode by design is designed to fracture - see https://ghuntley.com/fracture

Thanks for the link. This is a great analysis of Microsoft's open source strategy.

I didn’t think it was even possible to install proprietary microsoft extensions in VSCodium, how is that related to the version of the editor and how would it affect VSCodium?

It is not possible to install proprietary Microsoft extensions using the official VSCodium builds without additional, non-default configuration.

Right. Then the removal of this IntelliCode extension from MS should have no effect on VSCodium users.

I thought originally it may have been an OSS extension, but it actually seems to have been a proprietary project licensed under the Microsoft Software License, similar to Copilot and such.

Same boat. I hope they don't downstream nonsense like this.

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