• Pixel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    are there any good open source alternatives for VSCode for people that don’t want to learn emacs/vim? I’ve been looking for a good code editor to replace it but I haven’t been impressed elsewhere

    • benzmacx16v@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      VSCode is open (MIT) but it is packaged by MS to include some tracking/telemetry and they are distributed under a non-free license.

      You can use VSCodium for a telemetry free and MIT licensed binary or you are free to build the source where the default config is no telemetry and MIT license.

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      1 year ago

      There is always Eclipse IDE. It’s not as polished as Jetbrain’s apps for sure but it’s still very capable. It’s published under the Eclipse Public License. I think the language server code that’s used in VSCode is from Eclipse, it can be used for developing many languages and there are lots of plugins and other add-ons to enhance the experience.