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Very interestingly, just yesterday I discovered that VSCode has a set of APIs for adding SSH tunneling, and under normal circumstances you must launch vscode with special flags to be able to use them. Somehow their built-in JavaScript debugging extension can use these APIs without any issues.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vscode-dts...
And you can hardly find any public information about these APIs. Well, unless someone asks -- As of 2 years ago, they didn't have any plans to "finalize" these APIs, i.e. make them public. You are advised to find other workarounds (which do work).
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-discussions/discussions/...
This is much less "harmful" than Copilot though, I guess.
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Very interestingly, just yesterday I discovered that VSCode has a set of APIs for adding SSH tunneling, and under normal circumstances you must launch vscode with special flags to be able to use them. Somehow their built-in JavaScript debugging extension can use these APIs without any issues.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vscode-dts...
And you can hardly find any public information about these APIs. Well, unless someone asks -- As of 2 years ago, they didn't have any plans to "finalize" these APIs, i.e. make them public. You are advised to find other workarounds (which do work).
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-discussions/discussions/...
This is much less "harmful" than Copilot though, I guess.
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I honestly don't see the issue here (Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but in consulting services, not in products - and full expect to be downvoted to oblivion).
If these aren't finished, that means that they still haven't stabilized enough to go through the full support and release pipeline--that usually means documenting them, publishing a couple of reference development samples, doing a public announcement, i.e., the full nine yards of fostering adoption of the product feature.
I mean, it's not as if there isn't a huge API surface for the editor (the sample extensions repo is huge - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples), and there are already samples out there to extend the Copilot functionality: https://github.com/joyceerhl/vscode-mssql-chat (I wrote my own based off this one for a personal project)
So maybe consider that those things take time to build out fully?
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I honestly don't see the issue here (Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but in consulting services, not in products - and full expect to be downvoted to oblivion).
If these aren't finished, that means that they still haven't stabilized enough to go through the full support and release pipeline--that usually means documenting them, publishing a couple of reference development samples, doing a public announcement, i.e., the full nine yards of fostering adoption of the product feature.
I mean, it's not as if there isn't a huge API surface for the editor (the sample extensions repo is huge - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples), and there are already samples out there to extend the Copilot functionality: https://github.com/joyceerhl/vscode-mssql-chat (I wrote my own based off this one for a personal project)
So maybe consider that those things take time to build out fully?
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What a coincidence, I was just browsing Microsoft's Go fork (for FIPS compatibility, basically replacing Go crypto with OpenSSL and whatever API Windows has, just like there's a Google's fork that uses BoringSSL), and found this patch:
https://github.com/microsoft/go/blob/microsoft/main/patches/...
Upstream Go tricks Windows into enabling long path support by setting an
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> Visual studio is open source
Sort of. The core is, and the installable binaries with telemetry and properietary extensions are not.
The open source, telemetry-free version of VSCode is called VSCodium: https://vscodium.com/
> Didn't cusor fork it and is building it features directly into the fork?
Yes, in their recent interview with Lex Fridman they argued that life as an extension is too limiting.
The main reason we criticise Microsoft for doing this and not them is just their size and market dominance.
Why jump through hoops to make competitors better able to hotwire their own AI into VSCode, or hotwire Copilot into their own IDE, when it's easier to iterate fast and remain unpredictable?
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I'll just leave this riiight here
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim/921f...
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