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730 mentions on Hacker News by 573 people: 130 stories, 600 comments · first 2015-11-18 · latest 2026-10-30

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  1. From that page there's a trail of links to this explanation for the licensing: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... TLDR: Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft-branded product that is made available to users under a…
    comment by yorwba · 2018-03-06 · in Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor
  2. …head that's telling me something isn't right :D As for VSCode I just wish they get on with this - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14909 It's the only thing for me that's making VSCode just one feature away from being the best…
    comment by _hao · 2018-02-08 · in Visual Studio Code January 2018 Update (version 1.20)
  3. …as AV software: 1. shall not be CPU consuming. That famous 13% CPU consumption on blinking caret ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 ) is not acceptable. 2. shall be as compact as possible. 3. shall follow modern UI trends…
    comment by c-smile · 2018-02-08 · in LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS
  4. …time, especially when you feel typing is slow? It would be awesome if you can provide more info in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues and we'd love to fix the problem. Laggy typing/navigating is always a high-priority bug to fix.
    comment by rebornix · 2018-02-07 · in Visual Studio Live Share Preview
  5. Several solutions/workarounds, explanations, and links to lower-level bugs are here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35675 I would explain more if I knew - but I haven't read it. I just found the solution and applied it.
    comment by folknor · 2018-01-26 · in Why font rendering sucks in electron based editors?
  6. …was used before. GIF animations were proposed, but AFAIK never actually used. Here's the GH issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by mynameisvlad · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance
  7. …it? I've not heard this myself, and the GitHub page says there's no native code in the main repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by stupidcar · 2018-01-10 · in The State of Atom's Performance
  8. …to VSCode, pretty much the only way to get my changes upstream is to submit pull requests directly to github.com/Microsoft/vscode. Compare to the tiered approach, where I notice someone is an active and "trusted" contributor, so I submit…
    comment by carussell · 2017-11-18 · in Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
  9. …<political-request> Anyone else who shares that frustration, please vote here if you get a chance: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/10121 </political-request>
    comment by TimTheTinker · 2017-11-11 · in 10 years of love for Emacs undone by a week of VSCode
  10. …) but there were issues holding it back from being implemented fully, such as: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3422
    comment by ZenoArrow · 2017-11-11 · in 10 years of love for Emacs undone by a week of VSCode
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    Make panel position configurable (Visual Studio Code)
    story by tosh · 2017-11-10 · 0 comments
  12. Visual Studio Code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by disease · 2017-11-09 · in Ask HN: Which TypeScript codebase should I study to get better?
  13. Note that VSCode doesn't completely display lines of this length ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27380 ), and Kate struggles as well
    comment by mappu · 2017-11-04 · in Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets
  14. True. VSCode is more open source in this sense. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone is happy... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996
    comment by placebo · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
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    Ask HN: What are some good software roadmap documents?
    story by _virtu · 2017-11-01 · 0 comments
  16. …If we wanted to keep it in the input box that pops up, we would need something along these lines: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/36690 (it is my PR, for disclosure).
    comment by chillee · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  17. …of opt-in: this._userOptIn = typeof config.userOptIn === 'undefined' ? true : config.userOptIn; https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/b0a7b57d46a2dc1bafe...
    comment by jasonkostempski · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  18. …see that printing isn't on the roadmap for next year. If others want this feature, it's tracked in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5953
    comment by MatthewWilkes · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  19. …to worry about it? Actually the project is open source, so rather than FUD up the conversation: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/platf...
    comment by arcticfox · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  20. …out and nothing else i.e. no usage data is sent. Here is the test to ensure that is all we send... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/platf... But we don’t need to do that and I don’t think it’s what you expect as a…
    comment by baldfat · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  21. …the HN crowd. Does anyone know more about the MS spyware and how much I need to worry about it? [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16131 [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-...
    comment by sam_goody · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
  22. …bonus points, come back here and post link to it. I would support it; my team wants that, too. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues EDIT: there is one: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1927
    comment by veidr · 2017-11-01 · in VS Code Roadmap 2018
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    VS Code Roadmap 2018
    story by madspindel · 2017-11-01 · 230 comments
  24. Looks like InnoSetup: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/build/gulpfi...
    comment by WorldMaker · 2017-10-27 · in Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes
  25. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2806#issuecomment...
    comment by tosh · 2017-10-26 · in Visual Studio Code adds support for vertical panels
  26. …the reasoning a bit more. I found a lot of the community-submitted designs to be quite nice. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/6607
    comment by JoBrad · 2017-10-15 · in New VS Code icon is ugly
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    New VS Code icon is ugly
    story by jack1243star · 2017-10-15 · 48 comments
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    VS Code issues related to “icon”
    story by styfle · 2017-10-13 · 1 comment
  29. There's a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35783
    comment by styfle · 2017-10-12 · in Visual Studio Code 1.17 released
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    Many devs don't like new VS Code Logo
    story by akras14 · 2017-10-11 · 1 comment
  31. ▲ 1
    Visual Studio Code App Icon Update – Blue vs. Orange
    story by m88m · 2017-10-10 · 0 comments
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    THIS THING DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK – Issue #32405 – Microsoft/vscode
    story by federicoponzi · 2017-10-05 · 5 comments
  33. If i understand you correctly this should help you, especially the answer by Tyriar. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12054
    comment by suswombat · 2017-10-05 · in Integrated Terminal Performance Improvements
  34. …team VSCode. Hope the configurable panels allowing terminal on right side will get merged soon. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/34267 [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2806
    comment by nwrk · 2017-10-04 · in Integrated Terminal Performance Improvements
  35. …some kind of joke? VS Code is a glorified text editor that ate your CPU trying to blink the cursor: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 Microsoft has a real IDE, and it ain't written in JS.
    comment by frozenport · 2017-10-03 · in Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop app
  36. and yet they also have things like this: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt Can't really say nothing's changed if a lot has. I personally believe they need to…
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2017-09-27 · in Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
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    Visual Studio Code 1.16.1
    story by tosh · 2017-09-18 · 0 comments
  38. Yeah, it does and pretty well in latest releases.[0] [0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/6474#issuecomment...
    comment by faaq · 2017-09-14 · in Sublime Text 3.0
  39. …(it's Facebook's "official" code editor internally), and VSCode is adding similar functionality. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/30337
    comment by chillee · 2017-09-12 · in Introducing Atom-IDE
  40. …[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Microsoft/vscode/master/sr... [2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/20449
    comment by mattbierner · 2017-09-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.16 released
  41. Hopefully, it's now time to "make panel position configurable" ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2806 ), by far the #1 request of the "On Deck" features ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/27 )
    comment by SiVal · 2017-09-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.16 released
  42. Here some results for VSCode: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 Update: on my system Emacs has an average of 6ms vs VSCode 17ms.
    comment by mauro3 · 2017-08-22 · in Typing with pleasure, and low latency
  43. …quality debuggers built in, I gravitated to them. VS Code seems to strike a fine middle ground. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/19942 [2] https://github.com/pajoma/vscode-journal
    comment by look_lookatme · 2017-08-18 · in Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code
  44. Streisand effect is taking off: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/32795
    comment by devrandomguy · 2017-08-18 · in Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
  45. This got "fixed" in #32459 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/32459
    comment by styfle · 2017-08-18 · in Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
  46. I had the same problem with vscode. I filed this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/32246 Rather than wait, I ended up creating this extension last weekend to do it the way I wanted it to:…
    comment by stringham · 2017-08-16 · in What's the deal with Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right?
  47. Yes, please file an issue if you can reproduce this error: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new You may want to also try disabling extensions to make sure that one of them is not causing this
    comment by mattbierner · 2017-08-10 · in Visual Studio Code July 2017 Update
  48. X-ref: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378
    comment by mauro3 · 2017-08-09 · in Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage
  49. Here an Github issue from VSCode related to this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27378 which shows some results for VSCode vs emacs, neovim and sublime.
    comment by mauro3 · 2017-08-09 · in Typing with pleasure
  50. I dont see any C++ https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by systems · 2017-08-08 · in Atom 1.19 – Improved Responsiveness and Memory Usage