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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Good example why you don't want to use and rely on proprietary software (the extension is not 100% open source as I understand), if there are free (as in source code and license) alternatives.
A professor once told me “don’t trust ‘free software’ from a megacorp”, most important thing I learned in college.
Technically this shit isn't even free (libre); atleast with corpo projects we can always fork them