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chrome : chromium :: vscode : vscodium
That's a good pun. Clearly the authors have mastered the second hardest problem in computer science.
What makes that better is that VS Code is running on Electron, meaning it is running Chromium under the hood. Or at least part of it. Been a while since I read up on it so I can’t remember for certain.
Yes, you have it right.
Codium is actually a species of algae. They use it on their logo which is really cool!
TIL!
It's a bad comparison. Non-Google Chrome browsers (like Chromium) can still connect to Google's extension store to download browser extensions (like uBlock Origin). Only VS Code can connect to the VS Code Marketplace. Codium cannot. It's bullshit.
I am using VsCodium and I can install extensions. It's my default code editor and it has nothing less than my coworkers' MS Visual Studio Code.
Edit: just understood VsCodium uses a non-official marketplace for extensions, but for my needs I've always found everything
The problems are that VSIX binaries can't legally be redistributed and many of them aren't even open source in the first place. Many won't even work if you manually download them and add them to Codium. VS Code really doesn't deserve to be viewed as open source in any way shape or form and folks need to embrace the Open VSX market place and avoid Microsoft's like the plague.
It's like GitHub. A proprietary platform that's really popular for open source development for some reason, when there are actually open source alternatives available.
Nobody views GitHub as open source. Folks do believe that VS Code is open source but because the extension store can't be accessed by anything else (like an actual open source build of VS Code's codebase) it's an extremely dirty lie.
Also, VSIX extensions are full-on software packages. They contain binary executables that have access to both the inside of the editor and the rest of your system. If they didn't have access to your system there would be no way that they can hook into non-editor applications like your compiler or runtime debugger, or have the ability to pull files from outside the working directory. But they obviously can do all that, either usefully or maliciously.
This is specifically in response to the argument of "so what if VSIX extensions aren't open source? They're just extensions right?" No. They are applications. And they can individually contain just as much spyware and all the trappings of proprietary code as if you had used a fully proprietary editor.
Its not a bad comparison. Sure, some details might differ, but the underlying concept of a build that only uses the open source code is the same.
The reason it's a ad comparison is because it gives Microsoft way too much credit. Making an open source editor use a totally proprietary extension market and have proprietary extensions you can't redistribute and even having many of those extensions not work with Codium just because of strings that don't match is fucking bullshit. It's disgusting. It's totally deceitful. Especially because the way these light weight editor IDEs work all of the useful bits come from extensions, not the program itself.
More on the subject: https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php
Damn, that seems to be flagrantly anti-competitive. Has Microsoft attempted to justify why they do that?