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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. About 10. From one member: "VSCode has a relatively small team compared to the size of the product" - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138#issuecommen...
    comment by ggregoire · 2016-12-14 · in Visual Studio Code 1.8
  2. It's in progress, see [0] this issue. Scroll to the bottom for an update from a few days ago. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4865
    comment by kej · 2016-12-14 · in Visual Studio Code 1.8
  3. ▲ 2
    Microsoft's vscode project have the biggest ever open-source community
    story by LeonidBugaev · 2016-12-13 · 0 comments
  4. To be fair, VSCode is open source so you could go look if you were interested: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by bitcrazed · 2016-12-09 · in Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10
  5. > Object Rest & Spread Great news! That will finally fix the syntax errors in VSCode. :) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1974 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3804
    comment by ggregoire · 2016-12-07 · in Announcing TypeScript 2.1
  6. An example of how they use telemetry can be seen in their issue tracker. Here is an example: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/707
    comment by 0xcoffee · 2016-12-04 · in Disassembling Sublime Text
  7. …where you left off when re-opening. Apparently, the PR for this got merged only 2 weeks ago [1] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issuecomment-...
    comment by vmarsy · 2016-11-22 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
  8. The relevant issues: apt: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973 yum/dnf: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
    comment by jhasse · 2016-11-22 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
  9. …are in any way small. Take November's one that they are currently working on for instance here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/30 there is just a bit under 500 different issues that this new release will touch on.
    comment by mhoad · 2016-11-22 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
  10. …using in xming? According to MS, vscode doesn't work and perhaps all Electron apps wouldn't work: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138
    comment by nickjj · 2016-11-18 · in Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools
  11. …with Sublime/Atom)? Also it looks like VSCode doesn't work through VcXsrv according to this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138
    comment by nickjj · 2016-11-18 · in Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools
  12. …wouldn't it be possible to use it without devmode on Chromebook? Oh, I just found a issue for that: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1031
    comment by ktt · 2016-11-15 · in Why we need the best tools on Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
  13. It looks like setting an environment variable CH_ATA_ENABLE will turn it back on: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/b3c10273d7ba34086...
    comment by kej · 2016-11-03 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7.1
  14. Not yet. Issues: deb: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973 rpm: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
    comment by jhasse · 2016-11-03 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7.1
  15. Commit for the fix to the npm issue located here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/b3c10273d7ba34086...
    comment by prplhaz4 · 2016-11-03 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7.1
  16. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14889
    comment by Arnavion · 2016-11-03 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7 overloaded npmjs.org, release reverted
  17. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...
    comment by eugeneionesco · 2016-11-02 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7
  18. …sessions (aka hot exit), work started during this release and it should come to stable in v1.8. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101
    comment by Tyriar · 2016-11-02 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7
  19. …the main reason I don't use it. The other is that there's no way to hide the buttons on the left. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1105
    comment by 1wd · 2016-11-02 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7
  20. I really like their openess on Github[1] and fact that they're using Projects feature[2] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/projects
    comment by eDameXxX · 2016-11-02 · in Visual Studio Code 1.7
  21. ▲ 1
    vscode: Preserve files on exit (aka hot exit)
    story by mcgwiz · 2016-10-20 · 0 comments
  22. The syntax highlighting is done in process using a declarative format, eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/g... .
    comment by ntonozzi · 2016-10-19 · in Introducing Rust Language Server
  23. …2: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/LICENSE.... Visual Studio Code is MIT: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
    comment by TAForObvReasons · 2016-10-12 · in Facebook React.js License
  24. …editors due to the underlying Electron/Chromium renderer. Hope this will get resolved soon :'( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1896
    comment by Matthias247 · 2016-10-11 · in Visual Studio Code 1.6
  25. We are working on it. [0] [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/12163
    comment by octref · 2016-09-22 · in Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
  26. As far as raw TypeScript apps, VS Code and TypeScript itself are pretty good examples. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/typescript
    comment by softawre · 2016-09-15 · in Angular 2 Final Released
  27. …webpack, Redux and all these little hacks are amazing for exploring what's possible in web. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/
    comment by msoad · 2016-09-12 · in Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
  28. Nope :( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/396
    comment by Gee19 · 2016-09-09 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5
  29. Pull Request https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pulls At the very least it could be considered a vote for the feature.
    comment by Already__Taken · 2016-09-09 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5
  30. Same; can't load any extensions. Issue has been posted: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/11702
    comment by tjalex · 2016-09-09 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5
  31. …is now named code-1.5.1-1473370243.el7.x86_64.rpm. This is a good suggestion, I created an issue :) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/11722
    comment by Tyriar · 2016-09-08 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5
  32. …sure it will come eventually. Also we deprecated user voice recently, the issue is now tracked in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101
    comment by Tyriar · 2016-09-08 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5
  33. …for much improved Python code tokenization. [2] [1] https://github.com/MagicStack/MagicPython [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/commit/f4967722fa02471da...
    comment by RedCrowbar · 2016-09-08 · in Visual Studio Code 1.5
  34. ▲ 3
    Visual Studio Code feature: tabs and split view for integrated terminal
    story by Perkovec · 2016-08-15 · 0 comments
  35. …sharing your tasks.json? Edit: it looks like an issue about tasks.json presents some good examples: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/981 Edit2: and here's the information about variables: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/…
    comment by infogulch · 2016-08-05 · in Visual Studio Code 1.4
  36. 1.4 still has an odd bug - it can't deal with some fonts: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5537
    comment by rbanffy · 2016-08-05 · in Visual Studio Code 1.4
  37. …a clearly defined roadmap, release schedule and even tell you exactly how they work in the wiki ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki ). It's fantastic to see such a large company open up like this.
    comment by was_boring · 2016-08-04 · in Visual Studio Code 1.4
  38. …(which then probably still invoke some legacy scroll bar based facility internally in the OS): https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/base/...
    comment by pilif · 2016-06-21 · in The Monaco Code Editor
  39. …penalty associated with each dom call). But I will definitely try it out! Here is what we do now - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/edito... [It might not be the best method, but it was guided by measuring]: * if…
    comment by alexdima · 2016-06-20 · in The Monaco Code Editor
  40. …This method [1] could get some love and could try to recover in some of these cases. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/5b9ec15ce526decc5dd...
    comment by alexdima · 2016-06-20 · in The Monaco Code Editor
  41. …lot of the input handling for CJK languages, which I would have had no chance to fix by myself. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/5615
    comment by alexdima · 2016-06-20 · in The Monaco Code Editor
  42. …lengthy [1]), it would be great to be able to disable the always-on semantic highlighting [2]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5351
    comment by leeoniya · 2016-06-20 · in The Monaco Code Editor
  43. …C:\WINDOWS\sysnative should be a symlink to C:\Windows\SysWOW64, see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7095#issue-157913... for more info
    comment by Tyriar · 2016-06-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
  44. …quite a while now, but the lack of project-wide find and replace is why I still keep Atom around: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1690 This glaring omission combined with the proposed performance improvements in the Atom 1.9…
    comment by lewisl9029 · 2016-06-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
  45. …is coming, and it's cool that they have a detailed iteration plan for June publicly available: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7253
    comment by markbao · 2016-06-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
  46. Do you mind filing that issue? https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new
    comment by joaomoreno · 2016-06-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
  47. wont match \n though https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/313
    comment by s369610 · 2016-06-07 · in Visual Studio Code 1.2 released
  48. …quite a while now, but the lack of project-wide find and replace is why I still keep Atom around: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1690 This glaring omission combined with the proposed performance improvements in the Atom 1.9…
    comment by lewisl9029 · 2016-06-07 · in Atom 1.8 and 1.9 beta
  49. …Code. It's an Electron app, just like Atom, but it's a LOT faster. It's open open source too ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode ).
    comment by seesharp · 2016-05-22 · in Ask HN: Has all interesting desktop software already been written?
  50. …VS Code is open source and a direct competitor to this. Here's the source if you want to build it: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    comment by UnoriginalGuy · 2016-05-13 · in New Sublime Text update