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by filiptronicek 1481 days ago
Hi, Filip from Gitpod here!

It is a bit puzzling to me that this would be an issue, since extensions generally do not call any VS Code binaries, they should ideally access everything through the VS Code Extension API (https://code.visualstudio.com/api) and never call any VS Code-related binaries, since VS Code can run on a portable mode as well. If issues like this arise, it is most likely a fault of the extension itself, so reporting should be done on a repository or an issue tracker of that extension. I have never seen an extension call the `code` binary, so I would guess it could realistically only be helpful for some kind of a workaround for an API limitation.

If you have any of these extensions that break on VS Codium, could you please share them with me? I would love to dig for more and help towards fixing said extensions there.