While large parts of VS Code are developed as open source, the actual product is not open source.
There are many actual open source projects that support VS Code extensions, but only Microsoft products can use and connect to Microsoft’s Extension Marketplace. The terms of use for the Marketplace prevent any non-Visual Studio products from accessing it.
It would be great if this project were to be published at https://open-vsx.org/, an open source extension registry at the Eclipse Foundation, a vendor-neutral organization.
Hi,
While large parts of VS Code are developed as open source, the actual product is not open source. There are many actual open source projects that support VS Code extensions, but only Microsoft products can use and connect to Microsoft’s Extension Marketplace. The terms of use for the Marketplace prevent any non-Visual Studio products from accessing it.
It would be great if this project were to be published at https://open-vsx.org/, an open source extension registry at the Eclipse Foundation, a vendor-neutral organization.
You can read more at https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php
Thanks for the extension!