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

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Post by econnors » Mon, Apr 28, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

fsloth wrote: post #138

benoau wrote: post #118

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But why should we care? It's obvious Cursor's IDE is VSCode, I cannot think of a single reason why I should be against executing whatever the hell I want on my computer. It's not Cursor doing this, it's me doing this using Cursor.

That’s not how companies see it. From MS point of view it’s Cursor doing it to them . The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights.

Hey – hope you see this, wasn't sure another way to reach out. You left a comment ~10 years ago on an HN post about a breathing exercise. I discovered it, tried it, and since used breathing exercises to regulate an otherwise problematic amount of stress.

Thank you for that.

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

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Post by mschild » Tue, Apr 29, 2025, 7:15 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #283

mschild wrote: post #260

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I'm unaware of how they added it. Was there controversy around it?

Yes, initially it was a pain to disable, a big no-no for many customers. https://devclass.com/2024/03/11/jetbrains-bows-to-user-press...

Thanks for linking it. Obviously not a great approach.

I'd still look at Jetbrains more favorably than most other tech companies. Clearly not perfect by any means. To be fair to them, they seemed to listen to the feedback and provided it as a separate plugin.

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

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Post by qubitcoder » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 10:46 PM UTC

znpy wrote: post #344

baq wrote: post #111

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vscode does three things extremely well: defaults, defaults and defaults. The most important ‘you just need M-x do-whatever after installing the whatever-doer package’ is supported out of the box (no details on purpose, try running emacs or vim without any config and compare to a clean fresh install of vscode).

Re: defaults. Sometimes i wonder if it’s worth giving those new emacs distributions a shot. I’m thinking about spacemacs or doom emacs. They look cool but so far i’ve been okay with stock emacs.

I used Spacemacs for years and recommend it to others. It was fantastic in the early days, but the stability seems to have diminished. I encountered more bugs over time that I'd have to troubleshoot and fix myself.

I switched to Doom Emacs a couple of years ago. It's well-maintained with regular updates, fantastic language support, and lightning fast. The CLI tooling is also nice (i.e., you can run 'doom upgrade' to update everything, or 'doom doctor' if you encounter an issue).

It's the closest equivalent to VS Code in terms of working out of the box. Not to mention the advantages of Emacs with Vim keybindings. There is a learning curve, but the GitHub documentation is excellent.

Adding support for Ruby on Rails development, for example, is as simple as uncommenting '(ruby +rails +lsp)' line in the '~/.config/init.el' file, and then running 'doom sync'. There's a long list of supported languages and tooling [0].

[0] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/static/in...

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

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Post by phatskat » Tue, May 06, 2025, 5:56 AM UTC

econnors wrote: post #351

fsloth wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not how companies see it. From MS point of view it’s Cursor doing it to them . The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights.

Hey – hope you see this, wasn't sure another way to reach out. You left a comment ~10 years ago on an HN post about a breathing exercise. I discovered it, tried it, and since used breathing exercises to regulate an otherwise problematic amount of stress. Thank you for that.

That’s, huh, aww. This is so wonderful! If you have a link to said comment, it wouldn’t mind sharing what you learned, that would be lovely. I can also dig back ~10 years when I’m on my computer tomorrow :)