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[-] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 180 points 3 days ago

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?

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago

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

[-] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Honestly moving to clangd has got to be the single best thing I've done in C++, it's cross platform and I've found it to be significantly faster, more reliable, and more featureful than Microsoft's C++ plugin by a long shot

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I havent used vscode in while but I do remember having a lot of issues with the Microsoft C++ plugin, especially in large projects. I switched to clangd very quickly.

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