One of Code's main strengths is its flexible API and rich extension ecosystem hosted on the Visual Studio Marketplace. For more info on the differences between open source and proprietary 'Visual Studio Code' branded builds, consult the Code - OSS GitHub wiki. The latter is enforced by a handshake mechanism, and cannot be circumvented. Notably, only the proprietary builds are permitted to use Microsoft's marketplace and use Microsoft proprietary extensions such as the OmniSharp C# Debugger.

These different flavors are all built from the Code - OSS repository, but with different licensing and default configurations. || vscodium AUR, vscodium-bin AUR, vscodium-git AUR, vscodium-electron AUR Nullifies telemetry in the source code, also ships configuration with Open VSX.

VSCodium - Community open-source release.