These are extensions. No one is preventing OSS communities from developing their own remote dev, Python, and C++ extensions. The VSCode extension API allows it. There are actually some efforts being made to do it.

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nothrabannosir 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

You’re describing the E in EEE

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sdenton4 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah, but coming hot on their heels are the embracions and extingushions!

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yencabulator 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're moving the goalposts! I am responding to

> I honestly don't remember when they tried to snare someone to use proprietary extensions to something open.

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		But ... they literally did that here? I don't think it's malicious in this case. In fact I think they're giving away genuinely useful tools here with no obvious downsides to their use. But I do think it qualifies. Bit like the example of Martin Luther King being a criminal.

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croes 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it's not about the extensions but the market place.

You can't use the MS extensions with VS Codium, you are forced to use VS Code.