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How Visual Studio Code does not have an even playing field when it comes to AI tooling.

Microsoft is breaking its open and extension-friendly ethos with VSCode in order to cripple GitHub Copilot competitors with restricted APIs.

  • afb
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can run it without paying for a licence. It’ll remind you to buy one now and then and you can’t do some QoL stuff like changing the wallpaper, but you never actually need to buy a licence.