VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.
Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under a not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.
The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download and build the software from the source code. VSCodium includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.
Key Features
- Fast source code editor.
- Support for hundreds of languages.
- Syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, box-selection, snippets, and more. Intuitive keyboard shortcuts, easy customization and community-contributed keyboard shortcut mappings.
- Built-in support for IntelliSense code completion, rich semantic code understanding and navigation, and code refactoring.
- Interactive debugger, so you can step through source code, inspect variables, view call stacks, and execute commands in the console.
- Integrates with build and scripting tools to perform common tasks making everyday workflows faster.
- Support for Git so you can work with source control without leaving the editor including viewing pending changes diffs.
Website: vscodium.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The VSCodium contributors / Microsoft Corporation
License: MIT License
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