Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

1. vscode-cpptools

   1 70 5,835 9.5 TypeScript

   Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.

   

   Its close in spirit to DRM. They want to ensure that if you are using their projects, it must be under their terms.

   Many of their VS Code extensions[0] have license terms which /prohibit/ them from being used in editors that are not Microsoft's VS Code editor, and Microsoft can issue cease-and-desist for violation of this or use of their extension marketplace in alternative editors.

   Microsoft has a pattern they follow where they publish repositories on GitHub to proclaim they are open source, while actually distributing proprietary binary blobs in them that are fundamental core parts of functionality to the codebase[2][3][4]

   [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6388#iss...

   [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/5784

   [2] https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766

   [3] https://devlog.hexops.com/2024/building-the-directx-shader-c...

   [4] https://github.com/microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK/issues/...

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3. openvsx

   2 93 1,541 9.4 Java

   An open-source registry for VS Code extensions

   

   Motivate the authors of your favorite vscode extensions to publish them at https://open-vsx.org/

4. vscodium

   3 565 27,904 9.6 Shell

   binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

   

   > If you enjoy a rabbithole, look at how much DRM there is in Pylance (another extension that MS has locked down): https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641

   The funny thing is that I’ll never understand why it’s not open source and why its license prohibits its use in VSCodium. Pylance is good, but not that good. Certainly not on a level of PyCharm. What incentive do they have to keep it secret except being evil?

5. win32metadata

   4 29 1,401 7.9 C++

   Tooling to generate metadata for Win32 APIs in the Windows SDK.

   

   Its close in spirit to DRM. They want to ensure that if you are using their projects, it must be under their terms.

   Many of their VS Code extensions[0] have license terms which /prohibit/ them from being used in editors that are not Microsoft's VS Code editor, and Microsoft can issue cease-and-desist for violation of this or use of their extension marketplace in alternative editors.

   Microsoft has a pattern they follow where they publish repositories on GitHub to proclaim they are open source, while actually distributing proprietary binary blobs in them that are fundamental core parts of functionality to the codebase[2][3][4]

   [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6388#iss...

   [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/5784

   [2] https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766

   [3] https://devlog.hexops.com/2024/building-the-directx-shader-c...

   [4] https://github.com/microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK/issues/...

6. Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK

   5 6 1,485 4.9 C++

   Discontinued A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.

   

   Its close in spirit to DRM. They want to ensure that if you are using their projects, it must be under their terms.

   Many of their VS Code extensions[0] have license terms which /prohibit/ them from being used in editors that are not Microsoft's VS Code editor, and Microsoft can issue cease-and-desist for violation of this or use of their extension marketplace in alternative editors.

   Microsoft has a pattern they follow where they publish repositories on GitHub to proclaim they are open source, while actually distributing proprietary binary blobs in them that are fundamental core parts of functionality to the codebase[2][3][4]

   [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6388#iss...

   [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/5784

   [2] https://github.com/microsoft/win32metadata/issues/766

   [3] https://devlog.hexops.com/2024/building-the-directx-shader-c...

   [4] https://github.com/microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK/issues/...

7. basedpyright

   6 9 2,193 9.9 TypeScript

   pyright fork with various type checking improvements, improved vscode support and pylance features built into the language server

   

   > If you enjoy a rabbithole, look at how much DRM there is in Pylance

   So just don't use it? The linked discussion points to Basedpyright https://github.com/detachhead/basedpyright/ as the best free alternative right now (with some additional features around Python optional typechecking that aren't even in Pylance itself).

8. Bear

   7 52 5,689 8.7 C++

   Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.

   

   There are generators for the compilation databases that work with Makefiles and other build systems, like Bear: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear

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10. Visual Studio Code

    8 3,163 174,287 10.0 TypeScript

    Visual Studio Code

    

    They make money with VsCode (by forced, or at least hard to disable, telemetry, ads [1], and probably many other subtle things. Plenty of ways to monetize developer eyeballs). Pylance is just a vehicle to encourage people to use proprietary VsCode instead of open forks like VsCodium.

    [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/60989

11. theia

    9 63 20,851 9.8 TypeScript

    Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.

    

    MS is a bit weird. After realizing that most competent developers had left the MS ecosystem, they went for a Zeitenwende. But they did only for 90%.

    I wonder to what extent this halfheartedness should be ascribed to the MS org chart or to reasoning like "we should prevent a competent competitor to run away with our tools".

    In the mean time, there is a capable replacement named Theia [0] with none of the strings attached. We as a whole would do best to move to that one. [1]

    ___

    0. https://theia-ide.org/#theiaide

    1. That is to say: for vscode kind of experience. Native IDE's are unbeatable imho.

12. vscode-remote-oss

    10 4 115 5.0 TypeScript

    Remote development for OSS Builds of VSCode like VSCodium

    

    I guess that's https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss

13. zed

    11 172 62,270 10.0 Rust

    Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

    

    See the "Vim-friendly" button at https://zed.dev/, "Incredibly powerful out of the box" section.

14. code-marketplace

    12 1 286 7.7 Go

    Open source extension marketplace for VS Code.

    

    Looks like it should be possible, although I have no experience doing it myself.

    https://github.com/coder/code-marketplace

15. Roslyn

    13 167 19,670 10.0 C#

    The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.

    

    C# extension works well and uses Roslyn Language Server that is part[0] of the Roslyn (C# compiler) - this is what the base C# extension[1] uses. Both of these are licensed under MIT.

    The only closed-source component is 'vsdbg' which is Visual Studio's debugger shipped as a component that the extension uses. It, however, can be replaced with Samsung's 'NetCoreDbg' by using the extension fork[2].

    [0]: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/main/src/LanguageServe...

    [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp

    [2]: https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp

16. vscode-csharp

    14 15 2,967 9.8 TypeScript

    Official C# support for Visual Studio Code

    

    C# extension works well and uses Roslyn Language Server that is part[0] of the Roslyn (C# compiler) - this is what the base C# extension[1] uses. Both of these are licensed under MIT.

    The only closed-source component is 'vsdbg' which is Visual Studio's debugger shipped as a component that the extension uses. It, however, can be replaced with Samsung's 'NetCoreDbg' by using the extension fork[2].

    [0]: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/main/src/LanguageServe...

    [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp

    [2]: https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp

17. free-vscode-csharp

    15 17 195 9.8 TypeScript

    Free/Libre C# support for VSCode-compatible editors

    

    C# extension works well and uses Roslyn Language Server that is part[0] of the Roslyn (C# compiler) - this is what the base C# extension[1] uses. Both of these are licensed under MIT.

    The only closed-source component is 'vsdbg' which is Visual Studio's debugger shipped as a component that the extension uses. It, however, can be replaced with Samsung's 'NetCoreDbg' by using the extension fork[2].

    [0]: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/main/src/LanguageServe...

    [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp

    [2]: https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp

18. fair.io

    16 19 239 8.7 Astro

    Software sharing for modern businesses. Engage the developer community with your core products.

    

19. kragen-.emacs.d

    17 4 2 10.0 Emacs Lisp

    Kragen Sitaker's .emacs.d directory

    

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