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Saying Vscode is a text editor is like saying Autocad is a piece of virtual paper.

Not exactly a fair assessment. I’m actually surprised there haven’t been more significant issues



That we know about. Last I checked VSCode extensions run completely unsandboxed, at least on Linux. It's only a matter of time before a malicious one is discovered.


WIth the current state of software it makes most sense to have each project live in a container / vm. Including all dependencies, and visual code.

Unfortunately using visualcode server isn't safe enough either.

Something like qubes seems to be the future.. or present if you're running it :-)




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