This is why it would be better for more effort and time spent in developing open source software such as neovim. Then we can always be sure tooling is free.
Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
FreeBSD must be pulling a very long con, then.
Yeah. I think project governance matters more than license, and the BSDs are great examples. Having said that, I’ve soured on the GPL. V3 more-or-less bans companies from selling you hardware that runs free software, but lets Google, Meta, etc use the software to expand their cloud-based monopolies where surveillance capitalism and enshittification have won out. AGPL or BSL seem much better if you want free as in fre…
Are there AGPL or BSL success stories? (Ie. projects that started as such and became/remained sustainable?)
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t understand this line of thinking. Because they run a marketplace for Vs code they should also support paywalled forks?
> Because they run a marketplace for Vs code they should also support paywalled forks? Since, because of the marketplace, MSFT (somewhat) "monopolized" the access to extensions, they should not block other applications (forks) that also attempt to access the marketplace.
Those quotes around monopolized are really doing some heavy lifting considering that it is utterly trivial to use alternative marketplaces on (edit: flavors of) VS Code.
Seems to me this is plainly the community wanting its cake and to eat it too.
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#314Do you guys ever feel tired of 'sounding the alarm'? I feel like I've been doing that for years on a wide range of topics, but every time it's like you're talking to cult members. How do you break through to people? People say things like "you're overthinking it", "that's never going to happen", "I don't care because I like using VSCode and not alternatives". Is it individualism? That they only consider their own nar…
I’ve just lost all hope and have rock bottom expectations. Probably not the healthiest coping mechanism.
find one/your community and contribute there?
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to quibble, but VSCode (and GitHub for that matter) are part of my tooling, not part of any of my stacks. To me the former is tolerable, the latter is not.
I've been shafted by Github under MS ownership in the past, after 7 years. I'm using a gitea instance ever since. The only thing Github is good for is visibility/discoverability. Do not trust Microsoft ever. They will fuck you.
At this point, GH is like Twitter, people are begrudgingly using it because it has the most visibility.
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Open source project hosted on GitHub, for the network effect. > Use Rust which also rely on GitHub for crates.io It is a very good idea to get rid of both as far and soon as possible. And, as I wrote at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793095 in some circles it already became very fashionable to call GitHub "ShitHub" and somewhat look down upon open-source projects that have their central repository on GitHub…
> it already became very fashionable to call GitHub "ShitHub" You’ve said this a few times, without stating which circles? I assume mostly among four-year-olds given the level of wit involved?
They are attributing it "in some circles", like when a news actor says, "some people say". They are only trying to making shithub catch on like M$.
Although, given how lax they have been at removing Golang infected malware, it might just have legs.
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#317And 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.
Zed is a for profit company, aren't they just going to go down the same route?
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is it in a nutshell, with a lot of corps; IBM, Microsoft, etc. Be careful who you lie in bed with. Seemslike newer companies like Facebook and Google have a much much better track record. They may end a project but they don't suck you in and then say "nah, it's proprietary now"
Android slowly became that. AOSP used to be the complete Android system, more or less. And when you bought a Nexus device from Google, that's what you got. But they progressively abandoned the stock apps to replace them by their proprietary counterparts, or ones tied to their online services. Then, they replaced their Nexus line of phones with the Pixel line. Pixels are full of proprietary technology, and their last…
AOSP is still fully open source and allows you to build a complete Android system on it though. Theirs open source GrapheneOS, LineageOS, /e/OS, and the closed source onset on Chinese domestic phones that have their own proprietary versions on play services.
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#319This is one of the reasons why I switched to CLion for C++ work, and the fact that VS Code and its derivatives was a pain to configure for C++. I also use PHPStorm for web dev work and we use MS DevOps at work and that extension is unstable, causes IDE errors for me and I will not use MS products just for this one irksome bug. I prefer PHPStorm for my work, because working with PHP in VS Code has never been a great e…
> This is one of the reasons why I switched to CLion for C++ work So jetbrains allows everyone to use their marketplace and their plugins outside their ides? I can download the jetbrains php extension add it to my own shell and not pay for it?
they never gave us the impression that they were going to. No rug pulling is the name of the game here.
Re: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neovim is a godsend, I would be in despair without it.
I learned a bunch of Lua because of it :)
I've been thinking of that but nvim + lazyvim is so nice and easy as a text editor. I just need to figure out how to keep the shell plugin from thinking it's smarter than me and linting every single time