We will open source the code in the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license, then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.
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So they’re open-sourcing some minor glue to connect to an API of a big proprietary online service, or what’s this about?
For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren’t that good.
This is getting downvoted but how is this not good? Perhaps if you are adamant about not having this feature in your editor?
It’s an extension so it can be deactivated. That’s good. But it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested, to shoehorn people into workflows that have been proven to be unproductive and introduce another telemetry spying vector. While several performance issues and years old bugs remain ignored. So of course people hate it.
But the poor performance is due to TypeScript and later this year they will release a Go compiler that will make it 10 times faster.
