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| Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (ghuntley.com) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2022 | 264 points by ghuntley | big tech | original thread | | ||
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There was a decent critique from a couple years ago on this, not sure how relevant it still is: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ (HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657709 ) (Aug 2022) |
On a surface level, this is true. Vast majority of the code that makes VS Code is MIT licensed.
But the configuration of what marketplace is used and what extensions have access to the privileged "proposed API" makes huge difference in what Microsoft/GitHub can provide as user experience and what other developers can do.
See this great post for detailed explanation how Microsoft created a closed ecosystem around VS Code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657709