VSCodium
| VSCodium | |
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 Graphical user interface in dark mode | |
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| Initial release | 1.26.0 / August 15, 2018[3] |
| Stable release | 1.101.24242
/ June 25, 2025[4] |
| Repository | github |
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| Platform | x86-64, ARM32, ARM64 |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| License | MIT |
| Website | vscodium |
VSCodium is a free and open-source integrated development environment running on PC operating systems such as Windows, Linux and macOS. It is based on Code - OSS, the same free open-source codebase that Microsoft's proprietary[5] Visual Studio Code is also built upon.
Usage
[edit]In Stack Overflow's 2024 Developer Survey, five percent of users reported regularly using VSCodium, making it the most popular Code - OSS derivative after Visual Studio Code, and ranking 18th out of all IDEs above several established products like IPython, Emacs, NetBeans, Qt Creator, Code::Blocks, Kate, Spyder and Geany.[6] VSCodium does not collect usage tracking data, but comparing these results with the 50 million monthly active users of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code in May 2025[7] suggests around two million monthly active users for VSCodium in 2025.
Isabelle/VSCode is an alternative IDE for the mathematical theorem prover Isabelle, based on a customized version of VSCodium and developed as a student thesis project.[8]
Educators sometimes list VSCodium for their students as a viable alternative to Visual Studio Code,[9] likely to provide software recommendations with different licensing options.
Differences to Visual Studio Code
[edit]Visual Studio Code - OSS source code repository is licensed under the permissive MIT License. While the source code itself is free open-source software, the compiled Visual Studio Code software product that Microsoft distributes has a separate proprietary license.
VSCodium works around this by cloning the original Code - OSS repository, using it to compile and build the software packages, and uploading these pre-built binary files online. This results in convenient application installers that do not include Visual Studio Code's proprietary Microsoft-specific product functionality such as data collection, usage tracking and product branding.
VSCodium's extension gallery displays entries from the Open VSX Registry instead of the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. As Microsoft does not allow use nor redistribution of its marketplace entries in other products, this affects the availability of certain extensions.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Visual Studio Code - OSS". GitHub.
- ^ a b "VSCodium". GitHub.
- ^ "VSCodium: Release 1.26.0". GitHub.
- ^ "VSCodium: Release 1.101.24242". GitHub.
- ^ "Microsoft Software License Terms - Microsoft Visual Studio Code". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 29 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
- ^ "2024 Developer Survey: Technology". Stack Overflow. Archived from the original on 26 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
- ^ Silver, Amanda. "Celebrating 50 Million Developers: The Journey of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code". Microsoft Dev Blogs. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 16 May 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
- ^ Lindae, Thomas (15 August 2024). Improving Isabelle/VSCode: Towards Better Prover IDE Integration via Language Server (PDF) (Informatics: Games Engineering thesis). School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 Dec 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
- ^ Siam, Omar. "Git Collaboration". DARIAH-Campus. Archived from the original on 4 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.