I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
As far as licensing goes, VSCode is "freeware", and contains tracking blobs and so on. It's not something to rely on.
Its source is MIT-licensed, though, and there's a build of that called VSCodium, which is proper free software.
Given the choice between two products that are substantially the same, where one is free software and the other licensed, proprietary software, the choice is clear to me.
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As far as licensing goes, VSCode is "freeware", and contains tracking blobs and so on. It's not something to rely on.
Its source is MIT-licensed, though, and there's a build of that called VSCodium, which is proper free software.
Given the choice between two products that are substantially the same, where one is free software and the other licensed, proprietary software, the choice is clear to me.