love2d-community/awesome-love2d

Suggestion: Replace Visual Studio Code with VSCodium

JulianWebb opened this issue · 5 comments

JulianWebb commented

Currently under IDEs, one of the suggestions is Visual Studio Code (VSCode) by Microsoft.

Now I know it will be a point of contention, but I believe that VSCode should be replaced with VSCodium on the list because VSCodium is a FLOSS version of VSCode which removes Microsoft's branding/telemetry/licensing from the IDE. It offers the same features as VSCode, just not any of the spyware baggage.

JanWerder commented

Well, this is more politics than software development, but I always think that it's worth explaining your reasoning. I think that this is not a good idea:

  • VSCodium is a repo that is maintained by basically one person, which is not ideal.
  • VSCodium has the same MIT license that VSCode has, so there is really no gain in the whole FLOSS department
  • VSCodium disables telemetry and crash reporting, which can easily be done in the settings manually
  • The whole removing the "branding" thing, is just replacing the icon, which isn't even working properly at the moment

Overall I don't think that VSCodium adds anything of value.

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rm-code commented

IMO if anything VSCodium should be listed as an alternative - not as a replacement.

After all, it is the user's decision wether they care about branding/telemetry/etc. - not ours.

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krischamp commented

it's allways a personal choice to use FLOSS software

JanWerder commented

Please explain to me, how VSCodium is more FLOSS software than VS Code itself.

entepe85 commented

Please explain to me, how VSCodium is more FLOSS software than VS Code itself.

VSCodium binaries are released under MIT license, as is the original source code in Microsofts repository. The binary builds of Visual Studio Code, however, are licensed under a proprietary license which the users have to agree to before downloading them so they are - by definition - not FLOSS.