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This has me thinking about VS Code and VS Codium. I've used VS Code for a while now, but recently grew annoyed at the increasingly prevalent prompts to subscribe to various Microsoft AI tools. I know you can make them go away, but if you bounce between different systems, and particularly deal with installing VS Code on a regular basis, it becomes annoying.

I started using VS Codium, and it feels like using VS Code before the AI hype era. I wonder if we're going to see a commercial version of uv bloated with the things OpenAI wants us all to use, and a community version that's more like the uv we're using right now.

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MS is actively making your life using VS Codium a pain. They removed the download button the extension marketrplace making it very difficult to download extensions and installing them in VS Codium since VS Codium does not have access to the official MS extension marketplace. Many don't publish outside the marketplace for example Platformio. [1]

[1] https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1...

Luckily I avoided extensions before switching to VS Codium.

Glad to hear that I am avoiding Microsoft's spam.

I've not struggled to find the things I need at https://open-vsx.org (usually by searching directly within VSCodium), but then I only use it for editing things like markdown docs and presentations, LaTeX/Typst, rather than coding, which I prefer to do in a terminal and with a modal editor.

Also, Microsoft does not allow use of their LSP for python. You have to use the barebones Jedi LSP.

Fortunately, there are competing LSPs of reasonable quality now. I'm using pyrefly. Not sure if ty/ruff have one too.

Did not know about this, thanks. Now I don't have to do half of my development in Zed and half in VSCodium :)

This very company being acquired (astral) is up to fix this, by making the ty lsp server available

basedpyright has existed for years and now we have pyrefly from meta too. I think ty is also working on one.

1. You can add a bookmark that executes enough JavaScript to download the VSIX as usual. 2. I think you can patch the product.json from VSCodium to use VSCode. Gets overwritten on every update probably.

Honestly though, it's easier to disable ~three settings in VSCode and call it a day.

I really wanted to use vscodium but had to go back to vscode proper because the remote ssh extension is just nowhere near as good. The open source one uses a JS library to implement the SSH protocol rather than using a system binary which means many features (GSSAPI) aren't supported. Also just seems like a bad idea to use an SSH implementation that's not nearly as battle tested as openssh...

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