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What's the deal with exodus from GitHub?
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Microsoft owning github was already enough of a reason, people just somehow managed to ignore that very good reason for the past 8 years. Glad they are waking up now. Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.
Are people leaving VS Code as well? Because that’s Microsoft, too.
Vim!
Neovim!
(And also LazyVim!)
https://vscodium.com/
It's better than nothing, but it's a soft fork, which means MS is still steering the ship.
And boy, have they been drinking all the rum. :(
https://zed.dev/ recently became good enough for me to switch to full time
This … “Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.”