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+title: "Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD"
+date: 2023-06-05
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+VSCode and its many variations are not available on OpenBSD. This doesn't cause issue with many OpenBSD users, but those making the jump from Linux might miss access to such a popular editor. Lucky for us, there is a *hacky* workaround to solve this problem.
+
+## VSCode in the Browser
+
+I tried my best to build something like `code-server` locally and run that directly in my browser - but I failed miserably. Instead, I fell back on [vscode.dev](https://vscode.dev) which is essentially a remote version of `code-server`.
+
+Getting things to work seamlessly proved a little more challenging. I found the best performance was running everything through Chromium with special parameters enabled on launch.
+
+> **Note:** The following assumes you have already installed `chromium`
+
+First we need to disable [unveil](https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2) for Chromium. This will allow us to access our system files through [vscode.dev](https://vscode.dev) using the "Open folder..." or "Open file..." commands without issue:
+
+
+    chrome --disable-unveil
+
+
+Everything should work pretty solid right out the box now - except it doesn't. Syntax highlighting does not work without enabling WASM/WebAssembly. Your experience might be different, but I had to include the following when launching Chromium from the terminal:
+
+
+    ENABLE_WASM=1 chrome --enable-wasm
+
+
+Success! We can avoid typing out these complex commands everytime we want to launch our editor by setting up an `alias` (in my case via `.zshrc`):
+
+
+    alias vscode="ENABLE_WASM=1 chrome --enable-wasm --disable-unveil"
+
+
+That's it! Now I can just pop open VSCode on OpenBSD by simply running `vscode` in my terminal. Hopefully this can help others slowly transition over to OpenBSD - which you should do because it is amazing!