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Lapce vs VSCodium: catalog facts
Lapce	VSCodium
Free Free and open source under Apache 2.0.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Native Rust with GPU rendering, so it starts and scrolls faster than Electron editors Language Server Protocol support built in for completion, diagnostics and code actions	The same editor as VS Code, built from the same MIT-licensed source without Microsoft branding Telemetry is disabled in the default configuration
Still pre-1.0; the last tagged release is from January 2026 Plugin ecosystem is tiny compared with VS Code	Extensions come from Open VSX, so a few marketplace-only extensions are missing Microsoft’s proprietary extensions, including the C# debugger and Remote Development, are not licensed for it
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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