VSCode is an IDE designed to suffocate the open source alternatives, so that they retain full strategic control. Oh, and it also promotes their tech (Copilot, Github, C#, TypeScript). It's a long list of issues.
It works well though, particularly over SSH and devcontainers, although it has severe bugs that they refuse to fix, and it isn't open source so you can't fix it yourself.
I wish software was secure by design, like browsers are.
But it just isn't a business priority, because consumers have so little to lose.
And enterprise customers have strict environments, separate staging/production environments that reduce blast radius, and so on, so the insecurity is tolerable. Besides, employees can't be trusted anyway, so what's the point of having a very secure IDE if they immediately run curl|sudo bash.
Are there any good web-based alternatives? (like Runpod's openvscode-server)
It works well though, particularly over SSH and devcontainers, although it has severe bugs that they refuse to fix, and it isn't open source so you can't fix it yourself.
I wish software was secure by design, like browsers are. But it just isn't a business priority, because consumers have so little to lose. And enterprise customers have strict environments, separate staging/production environments that reduce blast radius, and so on, so the insecurity is tolerable. Besides, employees can't be trusted anyway, so what's the point of having a very secure IDE if they immediately run curl|sudo bash.
Are there any good web-based alternatives? (like Runpod's openvscode-server)