Use nix-build to manually install vscode extensions

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It is related to this:

VSCode extensions setup

As far as I can tell, one cannot easily use cpptools in visual studio code, due the C# executable. Thus, developing C/C++ is not really possible with VSCode on NixOS. To work around this, we can use vscode-with-extension and use an overlay to install cpptools via nix: self: super: { mycode = super.vscode-with-extensions.override { # When the extension is already available in the default extensions set. vscodeExtensions = with super.vscode-extensions; [ ms-vscode…

Using this will remove all existing extensions, not all packages are possible to use via nixpkgs, or it can be a lot of work to achieve that. I have been using the hack mentioned in this thread, but it is not always the best way either.

Sometimes I live on the edge, and I need to mix versions from different channels, and even do manual upgrade on some of the packages myself.

I found the best way for now, is to use vscode extensions directly from vscode, but sometimes you need nix to patch, and then nixpkgs is the only solution.

Thanks for the reminder though It’s been a while since I tested that, so maybe it has been improved.