Is .NET open? MS pushing a proprietary extension to replace OmniSharp

• omnisharp-vscode

  65 2,592 9.0 TypeScript

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

  

People should take a breather and especially read this comment from an OmniSharp contributor:

https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276#is...

OmniSharp isn't going anywhere. It's being moved to communicate via LSP, which is the way he himself has wanted VS Code to move to for years.

• netcoredbg

  8 715 7.4 C#

  NetCoreDbg is a managed code debugger with MI interface for CoreCLR.

  

No, they are equally "guilty". At least they don't brag how OSS friendly they are.

There is open source debugger from Samsung (https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg/), but it does not see much use.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  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.

  

• Roslyn

  159 18,551 10.0 C#

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

  

Ah come on! It's more complicated than that.

Most of the heavy lifting in OmniSharp is done by Roslyn [0]. Roslyn is the open source C# compiler and code analysis library maintained by MS. You cannot overstate how much effort has gone into Roslyn, and how much money MS has invested to make it work. OmniSharp is essentially a wrapper[1] around Roslyn (before Roslyn it was Mono), and while the OmniSharp team did a nice job developing a nice intellisense UX around it all, it is not like MS is taking it all away from them. Incidentally, it is almost certain that new intellisense plugin by MS will also be built on top of Roslyn.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn

• vscodium

  535 23,774 9.5 Shell

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

  

There is a libre version of VS Code but it is missing features like access to the extension marketplace.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

• entr

  47 4,028 6.8 C

  Run arbitrary commands when files change

is `dotnet watch` basically `git ls-files|entr dotnet build` ?

(entr is http://eradman.com/entrproject/ – like inotifywait but easier)

• free-vscode-csharp

  11 99 9.7 TypeScript

  Free/Libre fork of the official C# extension for vscode

and there is a VSCode extension that uses this instead of the MS debugger

https://open-vsx.org/extension/muhammad-sammy/csharp

• rust

  2,686 93,266 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• pyright

  136 12,152 9.8 Python

  Static Type Checker for Python

  

Just for balance, Pylance is proprietary but the core of it is the Pyright library which is completely open (see: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright).

It would be nice if they were more transparent about the differences between the two and why Pylance is closed. There are a few github issues where Microsoft PMs basically stonewall the community with very little info.

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