[CoastalCoder]

Thanks for explaining that. I hadn't considered the moat effect caused by defaulting to a plugin store that allows closed-source packages.

That said, it sounds like people are maintaining an equivalent store for Codium [0], and are populating it with most of the packages found in Microsoft's repo. I'd think addresses most of the concerns about that particular form of moating.

> with some amazing features (like remote editing) or plugins being unavailable

The remote-editing package is definitely a sticking point for me. Is there some reason to believe that an open-source equivalent is out of reach?

I'm speaking from a place of ignorance on this, but I'd expect someone out there to want to do the work of writing that OSS package. Particularly if they preferred Codium over Vim/Emacs for other reasons.