As implied, the move comes amid long-running concerns over telemetry and data privacy in Microsoft's development tooling. While VS Code itself is built on the open source Code - OSS base, the official ...

The GitLab Duo Agent Platform for IDEs has a connection to JetBrains IDEs and VS Code, can handle MCP and offers agentic chat and agent flows.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based ...

Kiro is a purpose-built environment that takes VS Code in a distinct, AWS-integrated direction. Cursor, likewise, uses VS Code OSS as a base but adds proprietary enhancements tied to specific models ...