Both VS Code and VS Codium look identical at first glance but that's not the case. Let's take a look at their differences.

VS Codium is a very good alternative to the proprietary VS Code.

I use it every day

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    1 month ago

    No. https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php

    Only Visual Studio Products Can Access the Extension Marketplace

    While all of the projects listed above support VS Code extensions, only Microsoft products can use and connect to Microsoft’s Extension Marketplace. The terms of use for the Marketplace prevent any non-Visual Studio products from accessing it.

    Gitpod employs a workaround where users upload .vsix files to install extensions. This causes unnecessary overhead as users have to download the files from GitHub, then upload them to Gitpod. Downloading extensions from the Microsoft Marketplace for any use other than in Microsoft products is prohibited as well.

    Most extensions are developed by communities and published under permissive open source licenses. The requirement to distribute and access these community-owned extensions in a system with such restrictive terms of service does not seem right.

    Our goal is to resolve this issue by hosting an open source extension registry at the Eclipse Foundation, a vendor-neutral organization. We’re doing this through the Eclipse Open VSX Registry project.