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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Here we go!!! I was expecting the enshitification of this thing for past couple of years
It was explicitly said to not use this outside of VSCode, so, I'm not sure where the surprise comes from.
You are late. They have already did the same with C# extension, and made it closed source too.
I'm not up-to-date: what did they do to the C# extension? I've been using it on a personal project and haven't experienced anything egregiously terrible (yet)
A lot of the C# ecosystem is open source (thank goodness), but the official debugger isn't, hence it only being available in the proprietary version of VSCode.
They did it with python about 2 years ago.