vscode

I really wish IDEs would support showing images inline in code. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to include a nice diagram in a comment but I instead had to resort to describing the diagram with words, or a shitty ASCII art diagram. There's a very long standing VSCode issue for this. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220

Our algorithm gives lots of credit to removing old lines of code! But to your broader point, I think there certainly is information about effort at the code level. Consider for example these two PRs: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/23858 and https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/209557. It's pretty easy to tell which one was more effort even if you don't know anything about the process for how they were implemented. Do you have any shareable examples you want me to test out? Or of course you can try it yourself :)

Our metric is approximately "hours of work for an expert engineer." Here are some example open source PRs and their output metrics calculated by our algorithm: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/25056: 15.266 (Adds backend, frontend, and tests for a new feature) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/222315: 8.401 (Refactors code to use a new service and adds new tests) https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/27977: 5.787 (Small change with extensive, high effort tests; approximately 1 day of work for expert engineer) https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/213262: 1.06 (Mostly straightforward refactor; well under 1 day of work)

Jetbrains will automatically warn you if your package.json is ever out of sync with the actual installed packages (a little dialog pops up). It's not clear to me how VScode handles this (and in fact, one of my colleagues often struggled with this). Closed issue with unclear resolution: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/66288 It's one of the many, many, many nice little touches that Jetbrains offers over VScode, and I heavily recommend people who have never tried it to give it a shot for a few weeks/months. It's a LOT better than vanilla VSCode, and slightly better than VSCode + a ton of third-party extensions. -------- Beyond that, I also see npm script chaining. e.g. instead of `npm run dev` to start your server, `npm run pre-dev-scripts` which call a bunch of other updates, style token generations, npm install, whatever. Combin

For what it's worth; Visual Studio Code and VSCode are not the same. VSCode is MIT licensed: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt From vscodium.com: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a “clean”

? The remote server (reh) is part of the vscode repo itself https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server/... there is a vscodium and codeoss builds of it too (reh builds). The extension that invokes it isn’t, but there are a few implementations of it that are, and I think vscodium bundles one with their build. It’s just some shell scripts that download the reh build and run it with the correct args.

Has anyone tried this and ssh'd into a container? IIRC VSCode struggled to correctly ssh into a container that's set up in your `.ssh` config file. Not sure if this fixed it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/194879

... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode? It's MIT licensed. Or are we here to start GPL vs MIT for the 10,000th time?

It's unfortunate because there _is_ an existing large ecosystem around the official Visual Studio Code product. (The extension "store" cannot be used with forks.) The VS Code team has kept some APIs in this "preview" mode for many many years. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/59921 is just one example, which has been requested since early 2018!

VSCode is not open source. Code-OSS is open source and is what is published at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode. VSCode is a proprietary application you download from Microsoft that is a distribution of Code-OSS with Microsoft branding and presumably some proprietary changes.

> VSCode is provided fully free as in beer and freedom No, VSCode is a proprietary text editor/IDE from Microsoft. Code-OSS is provided fully free as in beer and freedom, and is currently what resides at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode. Why would Microsoft not want other AI agent extensions to get the same benefits, which would benefit all AI agent users? Edit: I have removed the portion of the comment which discussed the throwaway account.