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VS Code<\/a> is considered the most popular free editor for programmers and has beaten out competitors like Atom<\/a>. The application is offered by Microsoft<\/a> free of charge for all platforms (Linux, Mac and of course Windows), but should not be confused with Microsoft’s proprietary IDE (development environment) Visual Studio, despite the similarity in name.<\/p>\n

VS Code does not allow you to create “projects”<\/em> as in full-blown IDEs – the editor always works file\/folder-based. Nevertheless, the program can be used like an IDE. First, you open a folder or clone a repository – thanks to the Git integration – via the explorer<\/em> icon in the left, vertical menu. Then you can add more folders to your project which is not a project, but a Workspace<\/em> according to VS Code terminology. When you exit the program, VS Code remembers which files were open and restores this workspace<\/em> exactly the same way the next time you start the program.<\/p>\n

The great strength of VS Code is the large number of extensions that are made available via a marketplace. This allows VS Code to become a serious programming tool for all conceivable programming languages. Via the extensions<\/em> icon already existing extensions may be configured and new ones installed.<\/p>\n

Licensing and backdoor<\/h3>\n

Microsoft would not be Microsoft, however, if the company did not include a backdoor from the point of view of open source supporters. For example, the source code of VS Code is open under an MIT license; however, the packages that Microsoft builds for Debian and Ubuntu, among others, are under a proprietary license and collect telemetry data without demand. At least users can prevent this by disabling all or part of this behavior in the Settings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

How to configure VS Code<\/h3>\n

The settings of VS Code (and its plugins as well) may be found in the menue at File > Preferences > Settings<\/em> or briefly by pressing STRG + comma key. To change the telemetry settings as described above, press CTRL + Comma, then search for \u201cTelemetry\u201d and – if there are several hits – make sure to select the telemetry entry valid for the entire application.<\/p>\n

Installation<\/h3>\n

The easiest installation is actually offered by Microsoft itself with the mentioned backdoor: simply download the latest deb package from Microsoft<\/a> and then install it:<\/p>\n

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sudo dpkg -i ~\/Downloads\/code_*.deb<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Microsoft’s package source is also set up at the same time, so that future updates of VS Code – the program is updated quite frequently – will be imported by the package management. To set up the package source manually, follow the detailed instructions on the page Visual Studio Code on Linux<\/a> If you don’t trust Microsoft ‘<\/a> s pre-built packages, you can build the package yourself from Microsoft’s open source code<\/a>, or more simply: use the packages already built under the name Vscodium from Paul Carroty<\/a> ‘s<\/a> repository<\/a>:<\/p>\n
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wget -qO - https:\/\/gitlab.com\/paulcarroty\/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo\/raw\/master\/pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo dd of=\/usr\/share\/keyrings\/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg\r\necho 'deb [ signed-by=\/usr\/share\/keyrings\/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg ] https:\/\/download.vscodium.com\/debs vscodium main' | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/vscodium.list\r\nsudo apt update && sudo apt install codium<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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