Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Post by rurban » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 5:47 AM UTC

znpy wrote: post #12

lysace wrote: post #4

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Still using VSCode, but you kind of know that's it's going to go sour eventually. It is Microsoft. :/ I figure e.g. emacs will always be there when that happens. All I need is a Github Copilot clone and a good code search feature. Oh and automatic reloads of open but unchanged buffers when switching between git branches. Oh and the ssh remote extension.

Emacs user here, have used vscode in the past. Yep, vscode is more intuitive. However emacs is mostly the kind of thing you dedicate a couple of months of discomfort and enjoy for the rest of your life. Quite literally. Spending some money on the “mastering emacs” book ( https://www.masteringemacs.org/ ) is worth imho. Bonus point: little by little you start enjoying doing more stuff in emacs. It’s a meme, but it’s t…

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 5:52 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 5:54 AM UTC

benoau wrote: post #120

bangaladore wrote: post #93

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While its fair to claim Microsoft has legal issues, I'm not sure what similarity you are drawing to what Cursor is doing.

It's what is motivating Microsoft to prevent what Cursor is doing. All cursor is doing is saying this blob of crap is compatible with their fork and letting you run it. This is akin to browsers supporting extensions from other browsers, and many other scenarios. What Microsoft is doing is trying to prevent VSCode from becoming spontaneously obsolete because coding with Cursor a) removes you from VSCode and b) does it…

Post by shmerl » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 5:55 AM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #102

shmerl wrote: post #92

FYI, neovim has LSP and DAP support, as well as a bunch of other editors.

neovim is a truly beautiful piece of software that is impossible to undersell. It has made vim into a full feature complete IDE for every language finally with a good editor :P

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 5:55 AM UTC

lysace wrote: post #4

kstrauser wrote: post #3

And this is why I'm using Zed today. I'm deadly serious. I was a huge proponent of VSCode at first but I've soured on it, and now I don't want my workflow to depend on it in any way. Awesome software, but I don't trust the upstream org further than I must.

Still using VSCode, but you kind of know that's it's going to go sour eventually. It is Microsoft. :/ I figure e.g. emacs will always be there when that happens. All I need is a Github Copilot clone and a good code search feature. Oh and automatic reloads of open but unchanged buffers when switching between git branches. Oh and the ssh remote extension.