VS Code or VS Codium - Which should I use?

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vscode.dev Landing Page

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vscode.dev

Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser.

Recently, VS Code has been released as a new online product, vscode.dev, a code editor in the browser. As a VS Code blog post said:.

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VSTS Landing Page

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VSTS

Visual Studio dev tools & services make app development easy for any platform & language. Try our Mac & Windows code editor, IDE, or Azure DevOps for free.

Because some of the software related to VS Code is proprietary, there are commercial avenues Microsoft can explore in the future. It certainly hasn't killed Visual Studio off as a paid product, Visual Studio is available in different editions and is part of a subscriptions offering. This is probably why the C# and C++ extensions for VS Code have restrictive licenses.

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GitHub Codespaces Landing Page

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GitHub Codespaces

GItHub Codespaces is a hosted remote coding environment by GitHub based on Visual Studio Codespaces integrated directly for GitHub.

GitHub (owned by Microsoft) has started a paid product called Codespaces, which uses VS Code in virtual machines (VMs). It was rolled out in August 2021 and is only available to GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers currently. Full details on pricing is available in their documentation. The pricing looks modest enough, but I'm sure they are starting to make some money from it by now.

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GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
GitHub (owned by Microsoft) has started a paid product called Codespaces, which uses VS Code in virtual machines (VMs). It was rolled out in August 2021 and is only available to GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers currently. Full details on pricing is available in their documentation. The pricing looks modest enough, but I'm sure they are starting to make some money from it by now.

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Visual Studio Code Landing Page
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Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
VS Code is a mostly open-source code editor, with proprietary sprinkles on top, and a proprietary extension marketplace. It is a bit of a mongrel breed of software really. VS Codium is a fully open-source alternative based on the same codebase.

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Atom Landing Page

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Atom

At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

Prior to being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub made their own open-source code editor too, Atom. Atom is still actively maintained. It just goes to show how they purused similar stratgies in the long-run. I guess that the philosophy is to make tools for devs, and create an "ecosystem" to sell something extra.

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