The latest articles on DEV Community by Karthik Baleneni (@kartiikeyabaleneni). https://dev.to/kartiikeyabaleneni https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F352227%2Fdd568691-16e8-4225-8a5c-8c9af248e04f.jpg https://dev.to/kartiikeyabaleneni en Karthik Baleneni Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:30:40 +0000 https://dev.to/kartiikeyabaleneni/what-is-vscodium-better-than-vs-code--36cl https://dev.to/kartiikeyabaleneni/what-is-vscodium-better-than-vs-code--36cl <p>VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.</p> <p><a href="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Foi9ynywuc3tpdsvxd3ep.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Foi9ynywuc3tpdsvxd3ep.png" alt="Image description"></a></p> <h1> How Different is this from Visual Studio code ? </h1> <p>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 </p> <p><strong>Go through GitHub comment made by Visual Studio code maintainer</strong></p> <p><u><a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-161792005" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-161792005</a></u></p> <blockquote> <p>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.<br> 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” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license</p> <p>The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you</p> </blockquote> <p>How do we download VScodium ?</p> <p><u><a href="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases</a></u></p> <p><strong>Give it a try and Let me know in comments , will post top 10 extensions we can use for VSCodium.</strong></p> javascript programming productivity opensource