VS Code Extensions

Extension marketplaces have quietly become one of the most strategic control points in modern developer tooling. As editors and IDEs evolve into platforms, and as AI systems increasingly orchestrate development workflows, the registry behind those extensions is no longer a secondary service. It is infrastructure. Over the past weeks, we...

Forking VS Code gets you to market fast. Building on a platform gets you a product that lasts. Eclipse Theia is that platform. Over the last two years, a wave of "AI native editors" has launched on top of a fork of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Cursor says...

📦Can’t Download VSIX Files from the VS Code Marketplace Anymore? Here’s What You Can Do If you've tried to manually download a .vsix file from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace recently, you may have noticed something missing: the download button is gone . Microsoft quietly removed the ability to download...

Last week on December 9, we completed the transition of the public instance of the Open VSX Registry at https://open-vsx.org to the Eclipse Foundation. I previously wrote about this, and the implications for you, especially if you publish extensions. This post is a followup with some reminders and further information...

The Open VSX Registry is being transitioned to the Eclipse Foundation and as of December 9, 2020 will be managed under the Eclipse Cloud Development (ECD) Tools working group. Once the website transition is completed, Eclipse will be responsible for the hosting and maintenance of the site. This post explains...