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comment by yencabulator · 2025-08-11 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

…https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/extens... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/wiki/Microsoft-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

comment by yencabulator · 2025-08-11 · in GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

…not supported on VSCode, always pissed when I get notifications from this 5 y.o. thread [0]. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6302

comment by Toritori12 · 2025-05-31 · in C++ to Rust Phrasebook

How is it not open-source? It's licensed under MIT + VS Marketplace Terms: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools?tab=License-1-o... If you fork it and don't use VS Marketplace, it's only MIT. Or am I missing something?

comment by Mystery-Machine · 2025-04-25 · in Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

Assuming that you're referring to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6302 , I see two comments along these lines, neither of which is from actual implementers. That isn't evidence either that the standard is a mess, nor…

comment by int_19h · 2024-11-14 · in JSON for Classic C++

…for Microsoft to say, for example, the cpptools extension is MIT licensed, which it is. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools?tab=License-1-o... In reality, it's a MIT-licensed wrapper. The real license is also included in the…

comment by CrimsonCape · 2024-09-30 · in Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)

…binary blobs in them that are fundamental core parts of functionality to the codebase[2][3][4] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6388#iss... [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/5784 [2]…

comment by slimsag · 2024-09-30 · in Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)

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comment by wruza · 2024-09-30 · in Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)

Here's a good comment thread from cpptools extension: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/discussions/126... Having not delved too deeply into building from source, this post suggests it's not even possible. We will need some new…

comment by CrimsonCape · 2024-09-30 · in Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)

…between using MS official build and compiling the source (there will be some for sure). [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/main/LICEN...

comment by elashri · 2024-06-03 · in Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks by Default

…MS would fix VSCode[0] :'( .Come on, the feature if more than half a decade old and this point. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6302

comment by lunfard000 · 2024-05-05 · in Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

The actual repo seems MIT though https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/main/LICEN... ... what is missing from this?

comment by pas · 2022-12-19 · in Ending support for self-hosted Gitpod and moving our source to AGPL

…example, the C/C++ parser also appears to claim to be "MIT" licensed if you go to the repository: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/main/LICEN... However, it actually is not, by evidenced by the two line disclaimer at the…

comment by AshamedCaptain · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released

…At runtime the extension downloads binary blobs which have a lot more restrictive license. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/tree/main/Runti... . This effectively makes it illegal to use the extension in non official Visual…

comment by Karliss · 2022-06-03 · in VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

…extensions seem to be open source, but I think you’re right about the remote development one. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python

comment by Ontonator · 2022-06-03 · in VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

Apparently a bug in the CPP addon with uninitialised memory, doesn't repro with debug logging. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/9041

comment by donkarma · 2022-03-19 · in Visual Studio Code is randomly erasing included header files with latest update

It's due to the C/C++ extension: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/9041

comment by politelemon · 2022-03-17 · in VSCode creates many empty file with invalid code automatically

…alternate versions can not deliver the functionalities like integration with platformIO. See also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518 Microsoft wants people to write code for them for free. Not for other projects to…

comment by Melkman · 2021-06-09 · in Microsoft is all-in on Open Source

…dependent on this extension you can not run it without submitting to tracking. That sucks. See also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518

comment by Melkman · 2021-05-11 · in The Arduino IDE 2.0 beta

…to OVSX: https://github.com/open-vsx/publish-extensions/issues/86 More cpp tools licensing details: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/5784 Edit: you can run theia from one computer and use it via the browser on another.…

comment by swsieber · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

Your claim is supported by the "Offline installation" section of: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools "The extension has platform-specific binary dependencies , therefore installation via the Marketplace requires an Internet…

comment by acqq · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary

I'm using https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools to debug.

comment by tinybug · 2020-03-20 · in Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications

…didn't eventually find a workaround, here's how I was able to get lldb-mi to work in Catalina: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/3829#iss... I also had the library issue mentioned here and copied the file the same way to…

comment by pfranz · 2020-03-19 · in Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications

…Looks like they've implemented fixes for C++ and nodejs though: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/85#issue... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/39144#issuecommen...

comment by shawnz · 2019-03-20 · in Is WSL actually ready for developers?

This may be due to a bug I've filed a few days ago: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/191#issu... Unfortunately, it seems that the fix hasn't been landed on this release yet.

comment by W0lf · 2016-09-09 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5