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Comment by IggleSniggle | Hacker News Reader

VSCode has these same threats, but is just a little more subtle/slow-moving about it.

Curious what you think of https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium .

I'm not actually familiar with the issues that VSCode has but I seem to recall some key component was not OSS, but I forget the details there and maybe it has changed. I know it has telemetry and such, but AFAICT that can be disabled by some settings. (I personally use vscode for my own work and disable telemetry and don't use any code assistant platforms, and I would like to know if there is a problem with what I'm doing)

I think parent refers to Codespaces and vscode.dev, not VSCode proper. These can indeed become gradually more locked down since they are completely online and out of the user's control, and as the UX difference between offline and cloud shrinks, people (especially new generations of developers) will slowly migrate there because of the convenience of not maintaining a toolchain themselves.

IOW, frog being boiled slowly.

Yes, this, but add Copilot and other such frog boil extensions into the mix, as well as the slow encroachment into the built-in terminal; all tooling that is slowly both making certain things easier while making understanding what's going on harder.

thanks, I think that would make sense

VSCodium is VSCode without the extensions ecosystem that people love.

hmm, interesting. I wonder if I can install a few extensions manually or something. ideally I would vet the code first...

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