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Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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Just violate their rules and enable the microsoft extensions on forks
That's just it, these extensions themselves refuse to run if the fork doesn't say it is vs code. You'd have to build it yourself to report compliant information to the extension, or build the extension yourself to not check. Both of which are not trivial.