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Comment by poincaredisk

>the telemetry of VSCode is non-personal metrics

But I don't want it. I want my software to work for me, not against me.

>and some of the most popular extensions are only available with VSCode, not with Codium.

I'll manage without them. What's especially annoying is that this restriction is completely artificial.

Having said that, MS did a great job with VsCode and I applaud them for that. I guess nothing is perfect, and I bet these decisions were made by suits against engineer wishes.

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