Open VSX Registry is an open supply different to the Visible Studio Market. Builders can use it to seek for extensions for editors that help VS code extensions, equivalent to Eclipse Che, Eclipse Theia, Salesforce Code Builder, Google Cloud Workstations, Gitpod, and SAP Enterprise Utility Studio.
It was created by the Eclipse Basis. Firms can contribute their very own extensions to the registry, and the registry will also be self-hosted internally to offer builders entry to extensions.
The registry at the moment has about 3,000 extensions from over 1,500 totally different publishers. For the reason that undertaking’s launch in 2021, over 40 million extensions have been downloaded, with over 2 million being downloaded each month.
Just lately the Eclipse Basis introduced that due to important development to the undertaking, they’d be forming a working group across the undertaking. The Open VSX Working Group will handle and speed up adoption of the undertaking.
“By making a vendor-neutral house with a real open supply mannequin for these extensions, we will make sure that this market is guided by the group, and never only a single vendor,” Mike Milinkovich, government director of the Eclipse Basis.
