ExpressionToCode VS core

(Source: I needed to hack a detection for this for my expression-tree-to-csharp decompiler, here: https://github.com/EamonNerbonne/ExpressionToCode/pull/196)

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The tooling is not entirely open or freely available.

If you, for e.g., want to debug you have to use MS tooling.[0] You also can't use VSCodium because only the MS built/distributed version of VSCode contains the necessary proprietary binary blobs necessary to debug C# (which also means you're forced to using the aggressive telemetry and other data collection built into the non-open source distribution of VSCode).

They've also taken steps to lock down the LSP support for C#, which once again requires that you use a MS sanctioned code editor to write C#. [1]

I really enjoy writing C# and think dotnet is a great platform to develop for, but the barriers preventing me from building more projects on it is that I don't want to be forced to use VSCode or Visual Studio.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

Microsoft does not adapt their new products to operating systems (https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/7556) which have reached End-of-Support status. Therefore, the game's system requirements have changed:

Thanks to .Net core