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. 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 to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VSCode. Please note that some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium.
Features
- Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode
- VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode
- VSCodium is available in Nixpkgs
- VSCodium uses open-vsx.org, an open source registry for VS Code extensions
- The minimal version is limited by the core component Electron
- You can migrate from Visual Studio Code to VSCodium
Project Samples
