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[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

VS Code has a fully open source base which excludes proprietary extensions and default telemetry ( kind of how AOSP is for Android)

Check here for more info:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And VSCodium is the project that releases builds from the VS Code source code. Privacy-conscious developers should use VSCodium (which is fully FOSS) instead of Visual Studio Code (which is partially proprietary and includes tracking).

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I know 😢 ~~is~~ was