Ditch VSCode Spyware For VSCodium

In this video I show you VSCodium, the fully opensource alternative to VSCode, ditch Microsoft's telemetry and spyware for a fully libre experience.

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[oxtx]

I work for a huge defense contractor. We aren't allowed to install VScode on our machines directly. Instead we have to unzip this bizarre looking archive from our security team and launch VScode with an included batch file that spends a few seconds in CMD with the text: "Disabling Phone Home Features". I don't know who on our IT team made it but I always found it funny.

[milutinke]

Pro tip: make nvim look like Vs Code, your normie cooworkers won't notice

[rodeffs]

YES! Was waiting for a video like this as it appears that virtually no one knows about VSCodium, even professional programmers which is a huge shame. Thanks for spreading awareness, keep up the good work!

[seanld]

There was a time when VS Code was utterly necessary for getting full "IDE" capabilities for many different languages in the same editor. But Microsoft rolled an absolute 20 with their LSP idea, and after it proliferated to other editors, it made basically any editor with an LSP client capable of being a very decent IDE. Thanks to LSP, I never leave Emacs. As long as someone wants to develop a good LSP server for VS Code (because everyone uses it), I get to reap the benefits as well. So can anyone using Vim, Neovim, Kate, etc. One of the very few things Microsoft's done that I can call based.

[ChimeraGilbert]

Thanks for this video - I had never heard of VSCodium. I kind of just blindly assumed that VSCode was completely open source and that if I disabled telemetry I'd be safe. The hoops we have to jump through for some damn privacy

[ethanh]

I tend to agree with most of the Mental Outlaw videos, but can't fully agree on this one. I'm a professional software engineer and have used many different editors throughout the years. There's a reason VS Code is so popular: it's super modular, easy to use, customizable, intuitive, works with all languages, and has enough features to almost be an IDE while still maintaining that lightweight/simple feel. While I agree that electron apps are bloated, it's something I'm absolutely willing to put up with if it makes my daily life easier. The team has taken a lot of effort to reduce the typical electron bloat, too. NOW, all that said, I am absolutely checking out VSCodium!

[lovebaranus]

Something worth mentioning and that a lot of people here clearly don't know about, is that you can replace the vsx market with the official vscode market, and you will have all your extensions working, since the editor is still vscode. The only exeptions i believe are 2 extensions which have the extremely hostile behaviour of disabling themselves when not working on vscode itself, they were relatively small though. Outside of those every other thing works

It's also worth mentioning that the reason why this is not a default is because is a legal hole in the vscode TOS, and therefore if they use it by default they run the risk of getting shutdown.

[murtadha]

1. VSCodium doesn't have an M1 binary.
2. Microsoft extensions (the most important out of all extensions for VSCode) are not available for VSCodium. So no Python development, no Java development...etc etc etc. And the alternatives in Open VSX are a joke in comparison (all due respect to the developers ofc, but you just can't compare the two). This is to be expected, as the Python extension alone has a large team behind it.
3. People who say these extensions are not important are clearly either not developers or have no idea what they're talking about. The claim "99 percent of VSCode users can switch to VSCodium" is very delusional if I'm frank.
4. The remote extensions are in fact incredibly useful.
5. No one really forced any one to use VSCode. People are using it because it's simply superior in many respects.
6. You can turn off the telemetry in settings, and that is respected also by all the Microsoft plugins.
7. No one has developed an IDE like VSCode because no one can fund such a project. I know people like to think that a donation here and there can sustain a project of that size and magnitude... spoiler alert, it doesn't.

[zbdfhg]

Perfect timing for this. This semester, our professor introduced us to VSCode and I was looking for an upgrade to the Notepad++ that I've been using for the longest time

[Iog]

I had a professor in my first year of CS who is a massive VIM user, and well, thanks to him I got into NeoVIM and dot files at the time. And honestly, best editor. There are definitely some things I wish that would be easier to utilize and all, but seriously an incredible way to code from terminal environment. Also, cool that you mentioned NIX!

[Garwinium]

"Regardless of your operating system you can get it in a sane way"
Me who uses TempleOS: 👁️👄👁️

[rakeau]

Not a dev in any way but this also seems like it could be a good stepping stone to help people who've never ventured into alternatives to make that first step in transitioning.

[JodyBruchon]

I petition to rename VSCode to "VSCopium"

[rez]

I have vscode AND visual studio open right now, even though telemetry is off. Lower ram usage is especially worth trying out the replacement.

[Adam_Lyskawa]

Nobody forced me to use VS and VSCode. I started to use them because of the features. And price, VS Code is free, VS Community Edition is also free for Open Source projects. Also because of speed - I also use Eclipse, that is REALLY slow. And speaking about the bloat - my PC is like 6 years old and even when it was new, it was not near the high-end specs. I have 16GB of RAM that is pretty standard today (6 years ago it was a lot). It uses my RAM. It works. I also tested it on some low RAM virtual machines and well, it was still usable, but then... I agree, on 4GB RAM machine VS Code is too slow. For the price - most IDEs will be slower. "Light" text editors will be way faster, but lacking features. Fast and powerful IDEs will be expensive. Unless you're the top of 1337, the telemetry won't hurt you, then again, if you're the top 1337, you can afford the most expensive IDE there is and probably a high-end PC too.

[vxer]

Vscode is well optimized for an electron app. I think you were being facetious about the amount of ram used by vscode.

[steveh]

I lack the gamer precision to click around a gui like vscode but it's really good to see this open source alternative

[mysterious_czrs]

Such shame that vscodium is missing C/C++ and platformio otherwise I would be switching already. Embedded development is hard to do without using proprietary software, because setting up toolchains yourself can be such a pain and sometimes there is no open toolchain (Microchip lol).

[qgysugfq]

lmao, my professor is actually forcing us to use VIM. not complaining but it is interesting and i'm enjoying learning about this old school text editor.

[xxslaysminecraftxx]

great video, just because something is open source people often forget that it can still have spyware like chromium, firefox vscode snd much more