Programming

A few things to point out:

• Microsoft created this extension and pays money to develop it
• Despite that, they give it to programmers for free. It is still free of charge.
• They explicitly said that using it outside of their products is forbidden (according to article: at least 5 years ago), they just didn't enforce it
• Someone (here: Cursor developers), despite that, used it in their products and started to make money from it

What exactly are you mad at? When will programming community finally understand that Microsoft is not a non-profit company and its primary purpose is to make money?

sounds like M$'s real face : Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

A company that is known for doing shitty things does shitty things.

Color me fucking surprised.

Honestly, at this point, I have ZERO sympathy for people who are still actively using microsoft products and running into problems.

Oh, Microsoft is pulling the rug under your feet?

That's fuckin' news right there!

Here we go!!! I was expecting the enshitification of this thing for past couple of years

If someone is looking for an alternative, use the clangd extension. It’s much better compared to the Microsoft one. LLDB extension is good for debugging. Also works with gdb.

The only things I am lacking now is the one for remote, python.

holy shit! the thing I've been warning developers who promote and use this shitty tool has finally happened.

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if you write fossy software, don't use products made by fossy enemies.

Stallman was right, episode five billion.

An AI company not respecting copyright and licensing? I'm shocked.

Good opportunity for Jetbrains to jump in. Maybe if they MIT licensed their community-edition tools.

Developers developers developers

Just violate their rules and enable the microsoft extensions on forks

They pulled the same thing with their widely used office format: base capabilities are standardised but most useful stuff is proprietary extension.

Microsoft

C/C++ extension

VS Code

so sad 🎤 🎻😢

I think a lot of people would really benefit from learning neovim

Maybe we need a new movement (or revisit past ideas from the 70s) that focuses on ensuring the openness regarding freedoms of computing (😉) that combat proprietary SaaS offerings? idk.

This is why OSS as an org needs a change IMO. Licenses like SSPLv1, where software can be supplied for free with options that allow a company to make money without risk of a cloud vendor snapping up their software (think Redis, MongoDB, etc) need a place at the table.

Not an issue. Install Clangd and CodeLLDB. They are much better anyway (see my other comment).

The real golden jewel that Microsoft keeps to itself is the Remote SSH extension. There's no open source alternative as far as I know.

There's also Pylance but that only matters if you're using Python.

Maybe it's just me, but I never got that thing to work right anyway - with VSC. It keeps running amok and using up all the CPU time doing stuff it should not be doing, trying to analyze every single file in my VM every single time it is started.

So... good riddance.