I don't know what's happening at github, but even the tree page rendering is annoyingly slow now. I wish they stopped ruining a working product by bloating it up with unnecessary 'features'.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was bought by Microsoft and all efforts are going towards AI shit. Once they have your subscriptions to copilot, windows, github, etc, they dont give a fuck about making anything easier for you

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hey now. A lot of that effort has been poured into turning a code forge into a corpo social media platform like Microsoft LinkedIn as well as a way to siphon out a percent chunk of donations via Sponsors too.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's kind of neat you can launch a version of Visual Studio code by pressing '.' though.

Still not sure why, especially given that it's pretty much impossible to find out that you can even do that.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

I can understand why it excites you. But I'm old enough to recognize that if you cede control of your offline tools like IDE to them, they will eventually exploit it to make money by ruining your day. I'm perfectly happy sacrificing a bit of convenience to protect myself against rent seeking in the future.

Honestly in this day and age where everything runs inside containers, you should be able to do that in your home server. Distrobox proves it. Even a good alternative to vscode exists - theia by eclipse - that's designed to do exactly this.