What IDE do you use and why ? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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I just saw this story and I want to ditch VSCode https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vscode-extensions-with-9-million-installs-pulled-over-security-risks/

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

I use vscodium which is vscode with all the telemetry ripped out. Anybody can make malicious extensions for any IDE, so I don't see what's speccial in that regard. It's just a reminder that you want to be careful about extensions you install.

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