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by joaomoreno 495 days ago
> It works well though, particularly over SSH and devcontainers, although it has severe bugs that they refuse to fix, and it isn't open source so you can't fix it yourself.

VS Code dev here. Would you like to share that list of severe bugs? Also, can you clarify what exactly isn't open-source in the entire VS Code with SSH and devcontainers flow? It's disheartening to read this, knowing that this simply isn't true.
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Squeeze2664 495 days ago
The remote development extensions don't appear to be open-source. The marketplace page for the "Remote - SSH" extension will point you to a license that says, among other things, "You may not: work around any technical limitations in the software;". The same page brings you to a github repo for the extension that contains no source code; it claims to be for gathering feedback only. I don't know how you can imply everything about this is open source, maybe I'm not looking in the right place?
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Hackbraten 495 days ago
Not OP, but I've been trying to get remote development working for years but to no avail. The official response on the GitHub issue [0] in 2019 was:

> The "remote" functionality (SSH/WSL/Docker) is currently only available for VS Code proper, not 3rd party builds.

> [...] /cc @joaomoreno

Last time I checked, Arch Linux users who have the Arch Linux build of VS Code installed still cannot use remote SSH development nor dev containers. I definitely can't get it working on my own development machines.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/17...

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larsnystrom 495 days ago
Where is the Remote SSH extension code? I always thought that was closed source?

Edit: The reason I think it is closed source is because a StackOverflow answer says so[1]. I’d be very interested in seeing the code if you could link to its repo!

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/55979526

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joaomoreno 495 days ago
This is what posting sleep deprived gets you. I was referring to the cli[0] and server[1] components, which have most of the meat. Sorry for the misunderstanding. That being said, I'd love to know which severe bugs disrupt your usage.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/cli

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server

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greatgib 495 days ago
Embrace, extend and extinguish. Tell everyone that it is ok to use this crap because it is open source, despite our being impossible to have the exact same fully featured vscode built from source.
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boatt 495 days ago
You should have asked Bing to filter your thoughts for you before you posted.
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Hackbraten 495 days ago
Speaking of "disheartening": your fellow devs who wrote the Pylance extension decided to mount a ReDoS attack against anyone who opens it in a debugger. I merely tried to investigate an issue that I had. [0] [1]

Being on the receiving end of a deliberate ReDOS attack feels more than disheartening. This is not shedding a good light on the VS Code development team as a whole. This is a despicable act.

[0]: https://darmstadt.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/...

[1]: https://darmstadt.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/...

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Varriount 495 days ago
I get what a regular expression like that does, but what leads to it being executed?
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Hackbraten 495 days ago
No idea. All I know is whenever I try to execute the module in e.g. VS Code's debugger, it somehow triggers the attack and enters a de-facto-endless 100%-CPU-load loop.
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DonHopkins 495 days ago
Now you have two problems!

https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...

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