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The new Microsoft is a company that makes tools available across a multitude of platforms. That's great for customers as it allows for platform choice without needing to sacrifice the tools that users are accustomed to using.
Visual Studio Code is one of the new bread of tools that works seemingly everywhere. It's also become a favorite editor for Ops personnel who write scripts or manipulate JSON & YAML files. The combination of autocomplete for commands along with a rich collection of plug-ins has helped the tool gain in popularity.
This blog post discusses installation of Visual Studio Code on Mac OS.
Overview
- Install Git
- Install VS Code
- Install VS Code Extensions
Part 1 - Install Git
Installing Git isn't a requirement, however, it makes things easier to have Git installed before VS Code, as VS Code checks for Git upon launch.
Git for Mac can be installed from https://git-scm.com. After downloading the package, install it.
Part 2 - Install Visual Studio Code
Download the code from https://code.visualstudio.com/ then extract and double-click the expanded file.
Part 3 - Install Extensions
Visual Studio Code offers almost any extension imaginable. There are many lists of 'top extensions for VS Code' on the internet. I recommend starting with this list from Microsoft - #FiveThings: Five VS Code Extensions You Should Know About {S:01 E:17} After that, move on and explore extensions related to the type of work you expect to do. In addition to traditional programming tools, there are extensions for connecting to cloud providers such as Azure and AWS. There's also a very nice extension for Docker.
Why Does This Exist
Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer:
When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.
When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license
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The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.
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If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VSCode.