Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

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Productivity Power Tools

I am quite confident that the bandwidth cost is absolutely not a concern for Microsoft, and that the obvious goal is for them to capture the market. The "C/C++" extension github repository is 4MB. Probably the download size for the extension itself is a fraction of that, but I won't bother measuring. It was downloaded 400 times over the last minute (there is a live counter on the extension page [0]). [0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools That's a 25MB/s or 200Mb/s bandwidth, for one of the most popular extensions. Multiply by the top 10 extensions and you get the bandwidth of an average home optic fiber connection...

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Eclipse Theia

Even better: Theia. It supports most vscode extensions right out of the box. https://theia-ide.org/.

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