VS Code vs Theia

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Just saw this announcement about the Eclipse Foundation's Theia project, a mostly compatible alternative to VS code, without the telemetry:

Have any of the VS Code fans out there tried this? Or plan to?

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I do use VS Code as an occasional editor, not an IDE, but haven't looked at Theia in years.

There's VSCodium if you want VS Code sans telemetry: GitHub - VSCodium/vscodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

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Not a VScode fan, but I do use it. Pretty much like Kevin, as an editor and not an IDE.
I used to use Sublime text, but VScode had a few things that made things easier (essentially colleagues/teammates who used it) so I eventually got used to it and stuck with it.

I'll give Theia a shot and report back (if I remember to do so).

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I use VScode, seems that theia offers more abilties to customize things.
I dont really see the point of that to much, i have not really run into issues with vscode that would require me to change them.
Some things are maybe a bit slow in vscode, which i suppose theia could eventualy do faster since it offers more customize (and so optimize) potentials.
But i think that will require the communities plugin creatores to do some work first.

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Theia claims to support VSCode plugins/extensions.

More importantly:

  • Theia does no telemetry

  • Theia does no forced updates

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Yeah but you need new ones to Theia to become interesting enough to switch over to it.

I have never noticed vscode updating.

i had to google what telemetry means xd i dont realy care about that either

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Oy!

That's the worst thing about modern Microsoft. The primary reason I avoid MS like the plague.

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Mind you, english is my thrid langague so i guess running into some rare advanced words still happends from time to time xd

And eh, it has pro's and cons

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I've been using VSCodium (VSCode without the telemetry) for years - anyone have a suggestion on Theia vs VSCodium?

And yes, uninvited data collection is a plague.

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Whenever you see telemetry just think "spyware"

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Collecting user experience data, is valuable for designing an intuative and user friendly product.
But ofc it should have its limits on what it tracks

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Forced updates for vs just became available:
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The microsoft community has had some interesting things to say about it:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Automatic-Updates/599126#T-ND10690729

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Note that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are not the same thing.

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Yeah, I am aware of the difference. FWIW, I have a barely-used subscription to Visual Studio for the occasional conversion task.