I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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    VSCode is an open source IDE. Its biggest rival is the JetBrains suite. When the alternatives are proprietary, VSCode is a win.

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        It contains mostly open source code. The proprietary binary MS distributes adds very little proprietary stuff to it. You can use the open source version Code - OSS just fine or use VSCodium which is based on that

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            If you’re on Linux, you can download it as a flatpak or if you’re on arch through the package manager. Maybe it’s also in the repositories of other distros but I can’t check that. I also have no idea how to download it on Windows. I would recommend getting VSCodium anyway though. It’s also available as a flatpak, in the AUR and on their website for Windows.

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          If I was going to use it I would use VScodium.

          How do you know what’s in VScode? Its still proprietary.

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        Aren’t those features just telemtry and the plugin store (for which there is an open source replacement btw)

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          Live share, remoting (running over ssh or other) and settings sync are both absent from codium, they’re the ones I know of

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              You can obviously SSH from the terminal but unless you use some external solution you can’t open folders on remote machines in the ide

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              I don’t think so, it runs a client and a server version of VS code so all extensions, settings, debug config etc work on the target machine as if native.

              Seems like a core feature a plugin wouldn’t be able to implement properly

              Obviously you can run ssh in the terminal or you could network mount the filesystem somehow but it’ll be way jankier

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                The moment remote development works with vscodium, I’m going to switch. For now, the FOSS alternative is running code-server on the remote machine, then do ssh port forwarding (or access it via tailscale/zerotier) to access it from a remote machine.

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          There’s also some issue with good VSCode when using C# & .NET

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        I did for a few years. Eventually I had to switch to VSCode because any given Jetbrains product is only good at a single language, and constantly switching Jetbrains products is a nightmare. Now that I’ve been using VSCode for a while, there are some extension that are so critical to my workflow Jetbrains is virtually useless to me without them.

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          Yeah, I mean, if it works better for you, then good on you 😎 I mostly just stick to Python and Terraform. I used their GoLand IDE for a while, it was nice. What extensions are ya using? I’ve seen a lot of embedded folks really like VSCode.

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            Most extensions have good equivalents. Other languages like Julia are VSCode only. Fortran was the language that really made me jump ship, PyCharm’s Fortran extension is barely syntax highlighting. Remote - SSH is the killer though, it is a beautifully made and essential tool for working with remote systems.

            Most importantly, PyCharm doesn’t really have any killer features or extensions that makes it essential.

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              Yeah, their extensions are okay, but it’s mostly what you get in the box. The remote SSH is sooo nice, I use it everyday for PowerShell from my Mac to Windows boxes. Yeah, I definitely get that for something like Fortran. I used to do LUA a ton back in the day, and it was the only good IDE for it.

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          You’re the second person to say this and it’s just wrong. With the Ultimate Edition, you can install the plugins for whichever languages you want and stick to a single editor without switching.

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        The jetbrains default hotkeys is in direct conflict to the “typical defaults” for hotkeys you see in the world