Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?

• sdk

  113 2,532 10.0 C#

  Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI (by dotnet)

  

Offtopic, but related: I am RELIEVED the `dotnet watch` removal was reverted [1]

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262

• chromium

  224 17,574 10.0

  The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

  

> I don't think there s a static linking going on there, else it would be impossible to use Electron for closed source software.

no, the closed source part can stay closed source but linking must be reallowed.

Just run "strings" on the code binary: you'll see symbols coming straight from Blink like this one: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/72ceeed2ebcd505b8d...

    $ strings code-insiders | grep HTMLFormControls

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• vscodium

  535 23,621 9.5 Shell

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

  

VSCodium is a build that does not include any of the proprietary bits: https://vscodium.com/

• Home

  37 77 0.0

  This is the landing repository for the .NET foundation efforts. Start here! (by dotnet-foundation)

  

• pylance-release

  50 1,652 9.0 Python

  Documentation and issues for Pylance

  

Pylance is licensed for use in Microsoft products and services only, so can only be used on official Microsoft builds of Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces."""

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/blob/main/FAQ.m...

• openvscode-server

  125 4,704 0.0 TypeScript

  Run upstream VS Code on a remote machine with access through a modern web browser from any device, anywhere.

  

• postgrest

  100 22,282 9.7 Haskell

  REST API for any Postgres database

  

That's not true, for example in PostgREST we setup a nix-shell[1] that allows us to run tests in different PostgreSQL versions(from 9.6 to 14).

[1]: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/tree/main/nix#working...

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• pyright

  135 12,055 9.8 Python

  Static Type Checker for Python

  

Well there is Pyright by MS (that's what Pylance is based on) and python-language-server by MS - that one has been superseded by Pyright and is deprecated in Code.

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright

• python-language-server

  8 888 3.2 C#

  Discontinued Microsoft Language Server for Python (by microsoft)

  

• jedi-language-server

  8 541 7.3 Python

  A Python language server exclusively for Jedi. If Jedi supports it well, this language server should too.

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