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Interesting post about VS Code and Extensions

Andrew J

I came across this article this morning which I thought was interesting enough to share.  I know VS Code is popular amongst many E14 members.  Summing it up, it would seem that the marketplace for extensions in VS Code is wide open to abuse as there is no sandboxing within the IDE.  It did get me wondering if Eclipse has the same issues.

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  • That is when you put profit first over privacy.!

  • in reply to embeddedguy

    I know some people love to hate Microsoft - but where's the profit in VS Code?

    It's free. It's open source. Lots of companies have chosen to extend it (e.g. Nordic) or base their tooling around it (e.g. TI Code Composer Studio Theia) because it's really good.

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    Fred27 said:
    I know some people love to hate Microsoft - but where's the profit in VS Code?

    Some things are passive.

    Once you're in "the ecosystem" the profit becomes two things:

    - Telemetry

    - Reliance on services

    VS Code gets you at the beginning, perhaps you need a simple editor? Then maybe it grabs some telemetry and data about how you use it, that's valuable to Microsoft.

    Maybe you start working on a project? Well, VS Code gets you so far, but what if you signed up to github? Your code's now on there, version controlled, but now it's a big project and you need a team? Maybe you need compilation services? Is it too far-fetched to suggest that now you need Visual Studio instead, and a github teams license/repository?

    And what about those azure services?

    It's free advertising. You make a loss in one area, but you gain in other areas. The ones that don't buy into the system you typically don't care about, but it's word of mouth advertising by them at that point. Have you ever seen a 'visual studio' advert? or a 'vs code' advert? I haven't, but somehow I know entirely about the software.

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  • in reply to Fred27
    Fred27 said:
    I know some people love to hate Microsoft - but where's the profit in VS Code?

    Some things are passive.

    Once you're in "the ecosystem" the profit becomes two things:

    - Telemetry

    - Reliance on services

    VS Code gets you at the beginning, perhaps you need a simple editor? Then maybe it grabs some telemetry and data about how you use it, that's valuable to Microsoft.

    Maybe you start working on a project? Well, VS Code gets you so far, but what if you signed up to github? Your code's now on there, version controlled, but now it's a big project and you need a team? Maybe you need compilation services? Is it too far-fetched to suggest that now you need Visual Studio instead, and a github teams license/repository?

    And what about those azure services?

    It's free advertising. You make a loss in one area, but you gain in other areas. The ones that don't buy into the system you typically don't care about, but it's word of mouth advertising by them at that point. Have you ever seen a 'visual studio' advert? or a 'vs code' advert? I haven't, but somehow I know entirely about the software.

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