Just to be clear, they are NOT deactivating IntelliSense which suggests classes and functions.
This is an AI inline code suggestion tool using local LLMs.
Not great but may or may not impact your workflow. I love using agents, but Intellijs inline code suggestions (also based on a local LLMs) are usually useless to me.
If anyone is considering moving editors, I was recently in the same boat and I can’t recommend enough lazyvim + the ebook “lazyvim for ambitious developers”.
This gets you a fully featured vscode-like baseline (navigation, language integration, integrated terminal, the whole thing).
I had tried many times to switch to vim/emacs and the initial barrier to get a workable system always kept me from pushing forward. With this I was able to make neovim my daily driver at work after just a couple weekends playing with it.
ITT: gross overreaction, as usual. IntelliCode is NOT IntelliSense. They're obviously not removing traditional autocomplete.
They're replacing an EXTENSION, so it has basically nothing to do with VSCode itself. If they developed an "IntelliCode for Vim" plugin, they would also replace "IntelliCode for Vim" with Copilot.
I refuse to use VS Code on principle. It has captured a staggering percentage of software development, across many software disciplines. Somehow ARM/Keil has been persuaded to go all-in on VS Code and will deprecate their "legacy" IDE, which will cause trouble for any hold-out embedded firmware developers.
I'm so happy I made the jump to NeoVim 6 months ago.
I finally got good RTL support with iTerm, language server stuff works great, and best of all, navigating and selecting things SYNTACTICALLY with nvim-treesitter-textobjects is life-changing.
I wonder if this will also impact VSCodium. I use it specifically to avoid a lot of the crap that Microsoft is trying to do while still being able to use the editor and plugins.
They have not released 1.107 yet, doing a quick scan I am not seeing anything on the VSCodium github.
Probably targeted at enterprise customers forcing them embrace co-pilot with big pockets. Bad move for individual users as this will only drive them to alternatives, instead of shelling out money.
Is IntelliCode the same as Intelisense (the non-AI based suggestions thing)?
I don’t really get the issue, I didn’t even know Microsoft published another AI suggestion extension, definitely cool that it used a local model but it does make sense for them to just roll it into Copilot.
Great there are other true open-source tools to be used zed, nvim.
I also noticed that copilot nowadays is forcing you to upgrade to their with following text:
"You've reached your monthly code completion limit. Upgrade your plan to Copilot Pro (30-day Free Trial) or wait until 2025-12-19 for your limit to reset to continue coding with GitHub Copilot"
Was using it actually like smarter auto-completion. But paying for that, hell no.
I share concerns about vendor lock-in and forced integrations. Open alternatives like Cursor are worth exploring too.
Had a shower thought about how much I am starting to dislike vscode now that every minor version just loads on unwanted copilot cruft instead of adding actual features. Grabbed nvim that night.
I had a scare combined with an insight last week. I was looking for documentation on power BI - specifically the M language. I found the Microsoft documentation but found it to be much more sparse than I hadremembered It only had the function names and the argument names and almost no explanation.
I thought "what a perfect way for Microsoft to force copilot upon us". They can make it necessary by being the only "documentation" of their software.
VS Code feels like nothing but bloat. Sublime Text is still my go-to, as I'm not very well-versed in Neovim yet. I'm also really digging the new C/Lua-based Lite XL - https://lite-xl.com. One of my New Year's resolutions is to learn Neovim properly.
Use Zed. VS Code is dead.
I've been using Zed for about a month and I'm very happy with performance the features. It guides you to setup only what you need, that was a problem with VSCode that would collect random plugins through time. I work regularly with Go, React, TypeScript, and I don't miss VSCode.
Copilot is what finally pushed me to use vim seriously. There's not a single thing I miss from VS Code, or Visual Studio, and I'm not even using neovim. Also dropped .NET, which I've used professionally since Framework 1.0, in favor of Go. Don't miss anything from there either.
Stop using microsoft products, it's not that hard
Protect yourself by removing dependence on Big Tech ecosystems
They bait you with "free" tools to herd you into walled gardens where you are the product (and customer at the same time, LUL)
It's beginning. Microsoft bring Microsoft again.
> The classic IntelliSense with language server for the used language is still free – but without AI support.
Ahh I was worried for a second.
can anyone recomend a alternative that is easy to install and also offers syntax highlighting? i have read about lazyvim and neovim, but both have extensive install requirments as i have read
If you follow the link in the articla you can see that this is, specifically, Intellicode for C#. This is not the standard language server protocol stuff, which continues to exist just fine.
I've often thought, "If AI is so great, how come all these tech companies are shoving AI features down our throats for free, instead of charging real money for them?" I'm actually glad that MS is doing this, and I hope it starts a trend of more companies gating their AI features behind paywalls, and a noticable reduction in the number of popups I encounter badgering me to use AI features that I never asked for.
Hardly surprising. The AI business model is to charge a haircut on all work, this is just them doing that.
neovim ftw!
Can anyone clearly and lucidly explain why they think this is a bad thing?
I thought everyone switched to cursor by now, why do people still use vscode?
Microsoft doing Microsoft things, even with all those fresh coats of "open source" paint they bathe themselves in the last decade they really can't change their DNA.
Expect the amount of f*ckery to increase as the AI realities set in but the number has to go up either way.
It reminds me of the good old days of Visual Studio + .NET + SQL Server where they played these games too.