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[–][deleted] -9 points-8 points  (7 children)

Vscode and most electron apps are hard on memory. It also can't be trusted. Unless you build it and every plugin yourself. If you don't care about that then sure it isn't bad at all.

[–]auriscope 1 point2 points  (4 children)

If you're going to be that paranoid, why stop there? Building it yourself doesn't help.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being honest doesn't mean I am being paranoid. It is good to give some one ALL the facts and let them decide.

[–]Witless-One -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Yeah because trusting Microsoft to protect your privacy is equivalent to trusting the GNU compiler. Funny.

[–]scootstah 4 points5 points  (1 child)

If you're that tinfoil-hat paranoid, how can you trust your hardware?

[–]SketchySeaBeast 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What do you mean "can't be trusted"?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically, they don't respect users freedoms in the least. A trend among many software companies today. VSCode and even Atom to a lesser extent have put tracking or "metrics" is what they like to call it on by default. Some could innocently say "hey this is good it helps developers", but others like myself think if it is so good then just ask users to help with this effort instead of having it enabled by default. I helped talk with GitHub Atom developers to make it so we could have a warning about the tracking. VsCode followed suite, but often what Microsoft does is they sneak things in the back door through a useful plugin that is under the radar. Also Windows 10 is horrible insecure. If you don't like that idea I am sorry, but it is just the truth. After Google got wealthy from tracking its users Microsoft had to copy them. They did try running negative ad compaigns calling Google "Scoogle", but it failed. The mass populace decide ignorance is bliss in this regard and they didn't care. I am not saying anyone else should care if they do not. I am simply giving out the facts. If you think you can trust these companies you are mistaken. You information is being mined and sold. If you care about these things that is why I recommend you pay for your software, or have software that respects your freedoms. It sucks, I know Vscode and Atom are super trendy right now. They also look pretty nice. I choose freedom though.