Both VS Code and VS Codium look identical at first glance but that's not the case. Let's take a look at their differences.

VS Codium is a very good alternative to the proprietary VS Code.

I use it every day

  • Alex
    12•7 hours ago

    I don’t quite follow what this is. Is it a from scratch implementation of the vscode experience or a fork which has removed propriety bits and telemetry?

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      12•3 hours ago
      • Code - OSS is what’s actually open source. It’s like Chromium.
      • VS Code is not open source and built on Code - OSS. This is like Google Chrome.
      • VS Codium is open source and built on Code - OSS. It’s like Degoogled Chromium.

      Codium also used an open extension marketplace. Microsoft’s cannot be used except by Microsoft products.

      VS Code is the epitome of fauxpen source.

    • @[email protected]
      33•7 hours ago

      The latter: https://vscodium.com/

      Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

      The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.

    • JeanMichelPot
      24•7 hours ago

      Neither. Taken from Codium Github :

      This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft’s vscode repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.

      The code of VSCode is open source but not the binaries. Codium tries to fix that.

    • @j4k3English
      -16•7 hours ago

      Its like a less capable Emacs wannabe that is designed to frustrate you when nothing works in examples using proprietary crap in VS Code, then leverage your familiarity to get you to give in to using VS Code and its MASSIVE stalkerware stream of constant information across your network with no rhyme or reason for that traffic to exist.