System Requirementsįor information on the system requirements for installing and running the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac family of products, see the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac System Requirement page. Visual Studio 2019 for Mac release notes.

To try out Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, see the Downloads page.įor more information about everything that's new in this release, see the

Support cross-platform desktop app development, cross-platform mobile development, Azure development, web and cloud development,Īnd more. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code.Visual Studio 2019 for Mac contains many new and exciting features and IDE productivity enhancements to If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases.

The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json.

We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

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