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What is VA? VS you mean?

Everyone knows this theory that vscode is open source except that it isn't really. The base is open source, but essential things are not like access to extensions, some most important language servers,...

As far as I see, "VS Code for the web" is not open source no? Free it is somehow, for the moment, if you are working with GitHub repos, in the limit of free accounts of GitHub, accepting the conditions like constant telemetry and Microsoft having access to all your code data, ...



Yes, I missed a typo too late to fix it.

You could host VS Code somewhere yourself if you wanted to. The most rational use case is to install it locally, like most people do.

They offer a hosted version because they can and it looks cool to send people a link to a running IDE.




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