VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

• vscodium

  535 23,774 9.5 Shell

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

  

I mean, you can re-build it yourself, in docker

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/build....

But I think you can also just build VSCode itself yourself. (But, I am not sure if that still doesn't have some non-free parts.)

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...

• vscode-cpptools

  63 5,361 9.3 TypeScript

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

  

While part of the C/C++ extension is MIT licensed. At runtime the extension downloads binary blobs which have a lot more restrictive license. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/tree/main/Runti... . This effectively makes it illegal to use the extension in non official Visual Studio Code builds like VSCodium. The situation is similar with C# extension.

There are alternative non Microsoft language servers for C++ and probably other languages which are fully open source and can be used in open source VSCode builds. But unfortunately some extensions depend specifically on the Microsoft language support extensions. For example Platform IO can't be published on OpenVSX due to this. https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1... . Similar with Unity debugger extension depending on microsoft C# extension.

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• Visual Studio Code

  2,852 158,564 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

I mean, you can re-build it yourself, in docker

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/build....

But I think you can also just build VSCode itself yourself. (But, I am not sure if that still doesn't have some non-free parts.)

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...

• Code-Server

  397 65,551 9.2 TypeScript

  VS Code in the browser

  

The alternative is actually possible and works reasonably well from the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server

• platformio-vscode-ide

  8 1,156 7.3 JavaScript

  PlatformIO IDE for VSCode: The next generation integrated development environment for IoT

  

While part of the C/C++ extension is MIT licensed. At runtime the extension downloads binary blobs which have a lot more restrictive license. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/tree/main/Runti... . This effectively makes it illegal to use the extension in non official Visual Studio Code builds like VSCodium. The situation is similar with C# extension.

There are alternative non Microsoft language servers for C++ and probably other languages which are fully open source and can be used in open source VSCode builds. But unfortunately some extensions depend specifically on the Microsoft language support extensions. For example Platform IO can't be published on OpenVSX due to this. https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/1... . Similar with Unity debugger extension depending on microsoft C# extension.

• Python

  3 2,070 0.0 TypeScript

  This extension is now maintained in the Microsoft fork.

• openvsx

  81 1,110 8.5 Java

  An open-source registry for VS Code extensions

  

I stopped using Code-OSS and Vscodium after this bug. For the longest time, the "solutions" suggested in that issue tracker were disabling CORS.

https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/issues/306

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• publish-extensions

  8 221 8.3 JavaScript

  Scripts for publishing VS Code extensions to open-vsx.org

Hey folks, Geoff here from Gitpod. Very please to see there continues to be interest in open (and FOSS) software development tooling. VSCodium uses the OpenVSX registry (which Gitpod folks created) because the VS Market place is proprietary and can only be connected to from offical Visual Studio branded products.

If you can't find an extension when using VSCodium then please send a pull-request to this repository https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions with the identifier and that will help grow the ecosystem of open tooling.

ICMYI - We blogged more about this over at https://www.gitpod.io/blog/openvscode-server-launch, https://www.gitpod.io/blog/cloud-ide-history and https://www.gitpod.io/blog/open-vsx.

• omnisharp-vscode

  65 2,592 9.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued Official C# support for Visual Studio Code [Moved to: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp]

  

• pylance-release

  50 1,653 9.0 Python

  Documentation and issues for Pylance

  

Not sure about C++ but the Python extension definitely isn't completely open source. That code appears to be for the extension client, but the code for Pylance isn't open (which provides completions etc.). The code for Pyright (the type checker) is open source though.

https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4#issuec...

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