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VSCodium
Version: 1.33.1
Web: https://github.com/vscodium/vscodium
Although we try to keep an unbiased approach to open source software, we sometimes eye Electron-based software askance because of its generally oversized footprint and performance issues. One good exception is Microsoft Visual Studio Code, a super-popular and feature-rich code editor that aims to be a mini-IDE. Although VS Code is formally open source, its officially binary downloads are not identical to the compiled source code. VS Code packages include extra trackers and telemetry data (surely only for the sake of the good and further enhanced QA, we can only assume), but this does take us further away from the spirit of open source.
Anyhow, VSCodium is an exact clone of VS Code minus those unpleasant additions and the Microsoft branding. In other words, it’s closer to VS Code than CentOS is to Red Hat Linux Enterprise, if you like. You get all the benefits of VS Code, such as the gorgeous built-in extension manager, tiles, tabs, debugger, Git integration and all the rest, with virtually no trade-offs. A lot of optimisation has been made to the editor’s internals by Microsoft, so both VS Code and VSCodium are wicked fast.
VSCodium is a much-anticipated application for those developers and sysadmins who really like VS Code but need better privacy. The editor supports over 100 programming languages and allows outstanding customisation via extensions. There is no need to do anything manually, since the extension manager works like a store: just find what you want to install and press the Install button. To start working with a project, open its directory in the editor and use the tree-based file browser on the left side of the window to navigate between files.
The VSCodium ‘Releases’ page sports builds for different operating systems and Linux distros, and in this case you can trust it better.
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Retropixels
Version: 0.6.2 Web: https://github.com/micheldebree/retropixels
While the amount of 32-bit software gradually declines in the PC market, there is a () for their Commodore needs.
