True that the marketplace has some weird rules (I think there is an online instance of VSCode, that scrapes Github for plugins that have permissive licenses to show them in the Marketplace tab - essentially a forked marketplace) - but the best bits of VSCode are open.
Remote plugin, terminal, marketplace are less valuable in an engineering sense than the actual editor itself.
Monaco, Monarch & LSP are projects that are directly or tangentially related to the VSCode project are they are MIT licensed and have astounding capability. Have a look at the editor API for Monaco - its extremely well engineered.
I for one am extremely thankful that these projects are open source because those are they genuinely impressive bits of engineering from VSCode.
Remote plugin, terminal, marketplace are less valuable in an engineering sense than the actual editor itself.
Monaco, Monarch & LSP are projects that are directly or tangentially related to the VSCode project are they are MIT licensed and have astounding capability. Have a look at the editor API for Monaco - its extremely well engineered.
I for one am extremely thankful that these projects are open source because those are they genuinely impressive bits of engineering from VSCode.