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Moving IDE from VS Code / VS to Eclipse Theia - very easy - no telemetry

#eclipse #vscode #vscodium #theia #migrate #europe #dev #ide

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Stefan Neufeind Jun 7

@jornfranke Sounds interesting, thanks for the hint. I heard about it a while back. At least #VSCodium is a small step to avoid the originak VSCode. But I read #Theia also uses #OpenVSX-plugins? Can you give a quick overview feature-wise or where you'd say Theia stands out? The open concept and European community are definitely a big plus.

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Jörn Franke Jun 8

@sneufeind I think feature-wise you named nearly everything. It seems to be a good drop-in-replacement for VSCode/VSCodium and is independent of a single vendor. The big community is a plus. No telemetry/spyware.

Additionally, you can easily design and brand your own Desktop application or make it run on a server.

It seems to be also a bit more stable/performant, but I did not do extensive tests.

Guess one has to try out ;-)

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Jörn Franke Jun 8

@sneufeind btw. it can load/save also VS Code / Codium workspaces.

You can optionally use their format (theia-workspace).

Stefan Neufeind Jun 19

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Jörn Franke

@sneufeind The eclipse foundation wrote the reasons much better down than me: https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2024/12/17/is-it-a-good-idea-to-fork-vs-code/

Bottom line - Eclise TheiaIDE makes sense. You can also create your own IDE for whatever you need (and some did! E.g. Arduino IDE, various IDEs for embedded systems etc..)

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