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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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An AI company not respecting copyright and licensing? I'm shocked.
holy shit! the thing I've been warning developers who promote and use this shitty tool has finally happened.
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if you write fossy software, don't use products made by fossy enemies.
https://open-vsx.org/extension/llvm-vs-code-extensions/vscode-clangd
Maybe not as feature complete but should be a good alternative
sounds like M$'s real face : Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish
I would say they are doing the same with Linux, but I'll just wait for it to become obvious.
they're desperate to do it and have their buddies at IBM to help too.
Stallman was right, episode five billion.
Does Theia have C/C++ extensions?
Just violate their rules and enable the microsoft extensions on forks
That's just it, these extensions themselves refuse to run if the fork doesn't say it is vs code. You'd have to build it yourself to report compliant information to the extension, or build the extension yourself to not check. Both of which are not trivial.
A company that is known for doing shitty things does shitty things.
Color me fucking surprised.
Honestly, at this point, I have ZERO sympathy for people who are still actively using microsoft products and running into problems.
Yeah, they have already done this with other extensions like Python, this is not new behavior.
Honestly the biggest reason to stay away from VS Code
What are other free and good ide's though?
Kate, KDevelop, QtCreator are the ones I use.
Closest? VScodium lol
Not sure about the c/c++ support, but zed has greatly improved and it's looking like a real long term alternative at this point
Maybe it's just me, but I never got that thing to work right anyway - with VSC. It keeps running amok and using up all the CPU time doing stuff it should not be doing, trying to analyze every single file in my VM every single time it is started.
So... good riddance.
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