Github Copilot is becoming open source and about to be integrated into the VS Code Core

Open taowang1993 opened this issue 7 months ago • 1 comments

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIEditor

I wonder what this means for Void.

Is Void going to refactor for this upcoming update?

May 26 '25 18:05 taowang1993

I do have an incomplete PR which I will definitely finish up when the API becomes public.

May 28 '25 14:05 animeshlego5

Great question. It doesn't immediately impact us, since a lot of the UI and internals we've built are still not possible with an extension (which is what they're open sourcing).

However it's obviously an indication that VSCode wants people building extensions on top of their core product, instead of forking it. We'll see what happens - we always imagined moving Void beyond a VSCode fork in the long run anyway, just a matter of when.

I also responded to a similar question in #665.

Jun 29 '25 22:06 andrewpareles