As dumb this change was, companies that fire their employees over this are somehow even dumber.
I’m still stumped why anyone tech savvy enough to code is not already on Linux and code berg.
Like outside of any job demanding otherwise that is
I would actually support this if the code was generated by the Copilot plugin, but this is just adding a blanket “Sent from my iPhone” on all code commits wtf.
It’s more insidious than that: by adding it to all even when they don’t use AI, they give cover to people who are vibe-coding. “Nah man, I totally wrote it myself. VS Code just puts that message on everything.”
I’m sure they added it by mistake 🙂
Shameless plug for codium: https://vscodium.com/
Afaik, they only remove telemetry and branding. Although they are lagging behind a little, so this change didn’t reach vscodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2823
Copilot is part of the github extension I believe not base vscode
Beyond VSCodium (which I have switched to since this news), what are everyone’s favorite alternatives that are easy to switch to?
I say easy to switch to because no one is jumping to Vim or whatever on this news. I don’t mean to offend the deeply Linuxed, but they aren’t.
I may finally give Pulsar a go (a maintained Atom fork).
I really missed Atom when it died.
Lmao, of course nobody is jumping to Vim. We’re all on NeoVim now.
I was many years user of JetBrains stuff. Tried vscode multiple times and last time I checked it was full Microsoft bullshit.
Finally I settled with Zed. It’s amazing. Still has some missing features but overall great experience once you set it all up to your liking.
Maybe KDE’s Kate. It’s available for everything with a mouse and keyboard and works just fine. Not as ultra fancy as Codium, but if you need a quick and easy text editor that isn’t all Electron bells and whistles… Kate.
Kate is nice but it’s annoying to use with direnv/nix devshells unfortunately
On the flip side, it pushed me to move away from vscode. Whoever did this, thanks.
Genuinely curious, to what?
The plugin ecosystem of vscode is why I’m still here.
Neovim. Also there for the plugin ecosystem. Some popular feature rich presets, all customizable.
https://www.lazyvim.org/ https://astronvim.com/ https://nvchad.com/
Quick search suggests Emacs is the only other major rival to VSCode/Neovim so you’re stuck with a TUI or a VSCode fork for a rich plugin ecosystem (non-athoritive statement, 30s web search).
Dmitriy Vasyura
linkedin says russian
…and?
