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An open-source registry for VS Code extensions

11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-03-31 · latest 2025-12-04

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  1. …how the namespaces work right? https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aeclipse%2Fopenvsx+namespa... https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Namespace-Access . IMO, this up there with the "but they were interested in crypto!" argument. The…
    comment by ants_everywhere · 2025-12-04 · in Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
  2. …basically a clone of VS Code (not a fork, like VS Codium). The Open VSX registry is open source ( https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx ) and self-hostable, although I have no experience with that. I assume it's possible to host your own…
    comment by bogwog · 2025-04-24 · in OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours
  3. …their extension to open-vsx.org. We've drafted a template with suggested content for the issue. https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Publishing-Extension... Such "3rd party extensions" don't get the "verified publisher" icon (or at…
    comment by ReleaseCandidat · 2024-09-30 · in Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
  4. …Cursor) have to hack our way through it. For the marketplace, can you not use Open VSX [1]? [1] https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx
    comment by sarthakdash · 2024-09-17 · in Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
  5. …- using Code or Codium. You can use the Open VSX registry with Code, but you have to configure it: https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Using-Open-VSX-in-VS... . So it technically does not have to be in MS' Marketplace, but 99% of Code…
    comment by ReleaseCandidat · 2023-09-04 · in VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode
  6. …[4] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium [5] https://open-vsx.org / Source: https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx [6] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/VSCode [7] https://github.com/atom/atom
    comment by commoner · 2023-08-29 · in Open-Source Washing
  7. …Open VSX and it's developed by the Eclipse Foundation. - Open VSX: https://open-vsx.org - Source: https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx VSCodium and Eclipse Theia use Open VSX by default. - VSCodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#extens…
    comment by commoner · 2022-10-15 · in The VSCode GitLab extension now supports getting code completions from FauxPilot
  8. …the longest time, the "solutions" suggested in that issue tracker were disabling CORS validation. https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/issues/306
    comment by ayushnix · 2022-06-03 · in VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
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    Show HN: An open-source registry for VS Code extensions
    story by jankeromnes · 2020-06-17 · 0 comments
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    Open VSX: An open-source registry for VS Code extensions
    story by jankeromnes · 2020-04-08 · 0 comments
  11. …can even go in and add something else => https://github.com/eclipse/open-vsx.org or roll your own : https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx
    comment by gdsdfe · 2020-03-31 · in Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code