[pythonaut_16]

The other side is that keeping some extensions closed-source probably allows the VS Code team to access more of Microsoft's work. I would guess that the proprietary parts of ms-code.cpptools are using code from Visual Studio and other closed-source Microsoft tooling.

[swsieber]

Oh, definitely. I understand it. It's just sad for me, personally, since I don't use those parts but it blocks other things (cpp dependent) plugins.