The immense popularity of Visual Studio Code and its ubiquitous presence in programming courses and education make the access to its vast extensions ecosystem a matter of social justice.

Codile (pronounced coh-dee-leh) is a distribution of the Theia IDE, with a relatively small selection of built-in features and complementary support for extensions from the Open VSX extension registry.

Codile is easy to install and use under Debian and derivatives (including Crostini), using pre-built packages.

On Chrome OS, Codile should perform much better than big-name extensible IDEs that run on Crostini, because Codile uses the native browser instead of relying on Electron. The difference is significant on ARM devices, low-end x86 devices and devices where the IDE cannot take advantage of the GPU.

• Eclipse Public License 2.0
• 一 (Secondary) GNU General Public License, version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception

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