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[tomek@vz]

Devs Sound Alarm After Microsoft Subtracts C/C++ Extension From VS Code Forks

In early April, programmers using VS Codium, an open-source fork of Microsoft's MIT-licensed VS Code, and Cursor, a commercial AI code assistant built from the VS Code codebase, noticed that the C/C++ extension stopped working. The extension adds C/C++ language support, such as Intellisense code completion and debugging, to VS Code. The removal of these capabilities from competing tools breaks developer workflows, hobbles the editor, and arguably hinders competition. The breaking change appears to have occurred with the release of v1.24.5 on April 3, 2025.

Following the April update, attempts to install the C/C++ extension outside of VS Code generate this error message: "The C/C++ extension may be used only with Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, and successor Microsoft products and services to develop and test your applications." Microsoft has forbidden the use of its extensions outside of its own software products since at least September 2020, when the current licensing terms were published. But it hasn't enforced those terms in its C/C++ extension with an environment check in its binaries until now. [...]

Developers discussing the issue in Cursor's GitHub repo have noted that Microsoft recently rolled out a competing AI software agent capability, dubbed Agent Mode, within its Copilot software. One such developer who contacted us anonymously told The Register they sent a letter about the situation to the US Federal Trade Commission, asking them to probe Microsoft for unfair competition -- alleging self-preferencing, bundling Copilot without a removal option, and blocking rivals like Cursor to lock users into its AI ecosystem.

> Slashdot

[tomek@vz]

GitHub is becoming more dependent on Microsoft as the Redmond tech giant plans to migrate the platform from its own data centers directly to Azure over the coming months. This marks the first major change since the previous CEO, Thomas Dohmke, announced his departure to start a new venture. Instead of appointing a replacement, Microsoft is integrating GitHub and its leadership into the company's CoreAI organization.
According to The Verge, an internal announcement was made earlier this week by Vladimir Fedorov, GitHub's Chief Technology Officer, citing a major capacity problem. In a note to employees, Fedorov wrote that GitHub is "constrained on data server capacity with limited opportunities to bring more capacity online in the North Virginia region".
Fedorov called the migration "existential for GitHub to have the ability to scale to meet the demands of AI and Copilot", adding that this huge infrastructure project will require teams to delay the launch of new features in favor of focusing on the migration.

> Neowin

[tomek@vz]

Dobar komad stiva koji se bavi problematikom (ne)optimizacije koda danasnjih aplikacija:

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago.
Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue.
We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence.

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[mkey]

Moram kazati da mi nije jasno kako user mode aplikacija "leaks" memoriju bez da istu alocira? Nekada je leak dolazio od alocirane memorije koja nije propisno otpuštena, ali ovo mora da je neko novo doba.