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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 184 points 2 weeks ago (28 children)

A few things to point out:

Microsoft created this extension and pays money to develop it
Despite that, they give it to programmers for free. It is still free of charge.
They explicitly said that using it outside of their products is forbidden (according to article: at least 5 years ago), they just didn't enforce it
Someone (here: Cursor developers), despite that, used it in their products and started to make money from it

What exactly are you mad at? When will programming community finally understand that Microsoft is not a non-profit company and its primary purpose is to make money?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Plus you can always just use clangd. Its what I've always used with every text editor that has LSP support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Clang is a better C++ compiler than msvc, it generates faster binaries and can compile complex code that msvc errs on at least in my experience YMMV.

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