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Microsoft Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.[1]
| Basic Information | |
|---|---|
| Release Year | 2015 |
| Product Type | Software |
| In Production | Yes |
| Official Website | https://code.visualstudio.com |
Open Source
The Source Code is available on GitHub under the MIT License.
However, the binaries published by Microsoft are proprietary under the "Microsoft Software License" and ships with closed-source modifications.
Alternate fully open source forks exists like VS Codium.
Incidents
Telemetry enabled by default
Microsoft's proprietary build sends telemetry data by default[2] which goes under Microsoft's Privacy Statement. It has to be disabled manually by setting telemetry.telemetryLevel to off in the user settings.
Blocking extensions for third-party forks
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See also
Sources
- ↑ "Visual Studio Code - Wikipedia". Wikipedia.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Telemetry". VS Code Documentation.
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