Andre Weissflog

@floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place

Another VSCode update with nothing but Copilot shite in the release notes 馃檮

The AI bubble really can't pop soon enough so that teams can go back to do actual work of improving the core product.

Leave the AI stuff to extensions and forks.

August 8, 2025 at 9:38:32 AM

Is it as bad as YouTube forcing you into AI-generated auto-dub if you are watching a German video with an account set to English?

I have largely enjoyed VS Code up until now but the aggressiveness with which Copilot is pushed is really getting to me as well. Like one accidental click and it鈥檚 already scanning your whole project.

I switched to VS Codium recently. I just placed it into my portable installation of VS Code and it just worked.

@schelling @floooh The only thing stopping me from switching to VS Codium is its lack of profile syncing. I use several different machines with several different profiles and I really need an easy, solid solution for this. 馃

Just stop using it? It was never great.

I actually have a soft spot for VSCode because it allows me to do things like this :)

marketplace.visualstudio.com/i

It's also the only IDE I know which can be configured for WASM debugging, and it feels more lightweight than a "real IDE" like Xcode or Visual Studio.

The latter almost works for JS -> Wasm in Zed; unfortunately while the symbols seem to point to .cpp files, the actual debugging flow shows them referring to .wat files that don't exist, and the debugger doesn't show the C++ source as a consequence. You can still step through, so the debugging engine is clearly working - not sure what's the missing link, never tried this before.

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