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The reason it’s a ad comparison is because it gives Microsoft way too much credit. Making an open source editor use a totally proprietary extension market and have proprietary extensions you can’t redistribute and even having many of those extensions not work with Codium just because of strings that don’t match is fucking bullshit. It’s disgusting. It’s totally deceitful. Especially because the way these light weight editor IDEs work all of the useful bits come from extensions, not the program itself.
Its not a bad comparison. Sure, some details might differ, but the underlying concept of a build that only uses the open source code is the same.
The reason it’s a ad comparison is because it gives Microsoft way too much credit. Making an open source editor use a totally proprietary extension market and have proprietary extensions you can’t redistribute and even having many of those extensions not work with Codium just because of strings that don’t match is fucking bullshit. It’s disgusting. It’s totally deceitful. Especially because the way these light weight editor IDEs work all of the useful bits come from extensions, not the program itself.
More on the subject: https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php