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Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#32

It has a proprietary license[0]. That makes it a non-starter. Too bad: it looks nifty! > The software is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):[…] d) use the software for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities Oops. Better not install this on your work laptop! [0] https://marke…

I worry that with the threat of Cursor this will be more common now. Microsoft's business interest will prevent them from funding development work that directly benefit the popular forks (for years they probably assumed no fork could ever gain traction...).

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#33

It has a proprietary license[0]. That makes it a non-starter. Too bad: it looks nifty! > The software is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):[…] d) use the software for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities Oops. Better not install this on your work laptop! [0] https://marke…

Can't use it for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities? Uh, this actually seems insane to me? What is it for then?

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#34

It has a proprietary license[0]. That makes it a non-starter. Too bad: it looks nifty! > The software is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):[…] d) use the software for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities Oops. Better not install this on your work laptop! [0] https://marke…

I worry that with the threat of Cursor this will be more common now. Microsoft's business interest will prevent them from funding development work that directly benefit the popular forks (for years they probably assumed no fork could ever gain traction...).

I suspect you're right. And thus came the end of the era of free VSCode.

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#35
post #8

Oh woah this looks great. Quite amazing they put the effort into this for Postgres instead of SQL Server. The demand must be a lot higher.

They already have the SQL Server Management Studio[1], which seems to cover similar ground?

I'm assuming they might want to move SSMS to VSCode in time, so trying it out by covering new ground, PostgreSQL, makes sense to me.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ssms/sql-server-management...

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#37
Doesn't look like there's much beyond what's currently possible in DataGrip yet (which is far beyond any other SQL client I've used), but nice to see a competitor in the space - especially one that will push JetBrains on the AI assistance side of things.

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#38

It has a proprietary license[0]. That makes it a non-starter. Too bad: it looks nifty! > The software is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):[…] d) use the software for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities Oops. Better not install this on your work laptop! [0] https://marke…

Can't use it for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities? Uh, this actually seems insane to me? What is it for then?

My initial reaction is "entrapment".

Edit: That's uncharitable of me. I strongly doubt that's the plan. But it genuinely was the first thing that came to mind.

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#39
post #30
post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I speculate that it's because the MSSQL tools have been maintained as part of Azure Data Studio, and were in better shape. ADS is being sunset, and I was surprised when trying to install the Postgres extension on VS Code to find that it had its last meaningful contribution 6 years ago [0]. It couldn't work on newer VS Code versions. I use ADS with both Postgres and MSSQL, prior to this announcement, I kept using ADS…

They built the postgres plugin in a way that nobody could usefully contribute to unless they worked at msft - like the rest of ADS the level of control they tried to maintain meant nobody wanted to work on it.

That is seemingly true of a bunch of tools. I am using an official Microsoft Python library - the repo is public on GitHub, but all of the CI or other backend integration is behind the Microsoft curtain, so it is impossible for the public to actually participate. The cherry on top is that the team that used to support the tool was impacted, so now nobody can maintain the thing.

Re: Postgres IDE in VS Code

#40

It has a proprietary license[0]. That makes it a non-starter. Too bad: it looks nifty! > The software is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):[…] d) use the software for commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating activities Oops. Better not install this on your work laptop! [0] https://marke…

I worry that with the threat of Cursor this will be more common now. Microsoft's business interest will prevent them from funding development work that directly benefit the popular forks (for years they probably assumed no fork could ever gain traction...).

Microsoft owns shares of Cursor through OpenAI
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