Code-Server VS vscodium

Instead you can use https://github.com/coder/code-server, which is really vscode running in your browser. You then get all extensions, etc.

Alternatively, you can self-host full VSCode IDE in a docker with code-server, or just use VSCode Server in a docker and connect remotely with any VSCode. You can also try Dev Containers for free and completely local, that do all that, batteries included.

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Install the code-server on a remote machine and run it using the following command.

code-server – VS Code in browser

But hasn't Coder.com[0] built a business around exactly that?

[0] https://github.com/coder/code-server

VSCodium is the open source "clean" build of VS Code without all the Microsoft telemetry and under MIT license.

https://vscodium.com/

If you're a C/C++ programmer like me, then you're gonna need Microsoft C/C++ Extension in order for vscode to debug and help you write your code. Since the version 1.24.5, which was released April 3, 2025, this extension is blocked on non-Microsoft products, meaning it's no longer available/installable on vscodium (or any other fork of vscode). It's get more interesting if I tell you that people tried forking this extension (which is opensource) and removing the check, but they found out that this extensions consists of opensource TypeScript code, and a few proprietary closed-source files (Read more here)!

If you're interested in contributing to the project, check out the VSCodium GitHub repository.

It's not abandoned https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/commits/master/

Visual Studio Code is distributed under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows you to do anything with the source code. This license is recognised by the OSI as an Open Source license. And quite predictably, a few forks of VSCode exists. VSCodium seems to be the most popular.