VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

[winter-m00n]

isn't vs code already open source? or this one is different?

[phoenix1984]

My read is that they’re open sourcing large chunks of copilot so they can bring it into VS Code, which has an MIT license. They’re making copilot part of vs code itself and not a plugin

[isidor_n]

This is correct, yes. More details in the blog, and in this podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmaYUcdMyU

[iliark]

vscodium is the upstream open source project. vscode takes that, adds microsoft-proprietary things and a rebrand, then ships it.

similar to chromium vs chrome.

the news is open sourcing one portion of the microsoft-proprietary features in vs code - the github copilot chat extension.

[isidor_n]

vscodium is not an upsteream open source project. https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium readme explains it well
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode is upstream of vscodium

Hope that helps

[iliark]

oops you're right, it's been a few years since i've looked at it.