We will open source the code in the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license, then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.
I wonder if this will make its way into vscodium
VS Code: Open Source AI Editor
Submitted 14 hours ago by MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIEditor
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madame_gaymes@programming.dev 11 hours ago
pslightlypsycho47@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Just found out about it and will be downloading it soon!
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
This is getting downvoted but how is this not good? Perhaps if you are adamant about not having this feature in your editor?
dustyData@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s an extension so it can be deactivated. That’s good. But it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested, to shoehorn people into workflows that have been proven to be unproductive and introduce another telemetry spying vector. While several performance issues and years old bugs remain ignored. So of course people hate it.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
At least the spying vector is open.
IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
But the poor performance is due to TypeScript and later this year they will release a Go compiler that will make it 10 times faster.
Saucepain@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The auto-complete in VSCode is one of the few AI use cases that I actually find useful. Passing a whole bunch of args in a python class function call to set instance variables just becomes that little bit less tedious. Lots of little things like that add up to nice time savings.
The “ask copilot” features are absolutely terrible though.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 hours ago
So they're open-sourcing some minor glue to connect to an API of a big proprietary online service, or what's this about?