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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. Vast majority of the codebase is Typescript: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src . Only thing I could find written in Rust was the CLI. Sure, under the hood Electron is powered by Chromium V8 (which also powers Node.js),…
    comment by chrisco255 · 2022-12-06 · in Mac OS 9
  2. …of delineation between "VS Code" and "VS Code Server", but "VS Code" itself is MIT licensed. See: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode This repository ("Code - OSS") is where we (Microsoft) develop the Visual Studio Code product together…
    comment by mindcrime · 2022-11-30 · in Ask HN: Is VSCode Open Source? What's with the License?
  3. …important. Its also not open source (VSCode), so I would have no qualms regarding that - there is ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode ) OFC but the license for the product everyone uses is not ( https://code.visualstudio.com/License/ ).…
    comment by smaudet · 2022-11-21 · in Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
  4. …love to see someone downvoting me provide a compelling response to the full source available here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode under the MIT license... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/LICENSE.txt Again - Microsoft…
    comment by horsawlarway · 2022-11-16 · in Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
  5. …that is as small as possible! The referenced issue is only one example. There are many more (e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/164574 ).
    comment by Gehinnn · 2022-11-03 · in Visualizing Diffs: The Myers difference algorithm (2020)
  6. …"diffEditor.diffAlgorithm": "experimental"). Diffing is hard and there are many subtleties (e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/164370 ). The space efficient Myers diff algorithm has some problems when using it for merging, as…
    comment by Gehinnn · 2022-11-03 · in Visualizing Diffs: The Myers difference algorithm (2020)
  7. …[4]: https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/issues/953 [5]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3884
    comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2022-10-24 · in Dotfile madness (2019)
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    Is just typing code.visualstudio.com too difficult for some people?
    story by liuxiaopai · 2022-10-20 · 0 comments
  9. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
    comment by FPGAhacker · 2022-10-15 · in VS Code Org Mode
  10. …VSCode is great. Edit: Looks like ongoing effort is in progress to tackle extension problem: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/40239
    comment by jve · 2022-10-13 · in Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
  11. How about this one: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/427530e884b33be2451... export interface IDomEvent { <K extends keyof HTMLElementEventMap>(element: EventHandler, type: K, useCapture?: boolean):…
    comment by hbrn · 2022-10-10 · in TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
  12. …[1] https://github.com/vim/vim/issues [2] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues
    comment by tiffanyh · 2022-10-10 · in Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust
  13. I tried to find an example to see what you mean, take this file - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/vs/editor/... The typings on the class variables are useful to have. There are also typings on the function signatures, not…
    comment by bottlepalm · 2022-10-09 · in TypeScript is now officially 10 years old
  14. It's an open ticket. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94679
    comment by Kyro38 · 2022-09-21 · in A text adventure game on TypeScript's type system
  15. I wish this issue would get addressed: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94679 Showing fully resolved types in Intellisense would be the single largest usability enhancement they could make for me right now..
    comment by Rapzid · 2022-09-20 · in Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript
  16. ~half of that https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3A... but we all know number of bugs reported is not a very useful metric (dups, weird non reproducible configurations, not confirmed bugs, etc...) besides: VS Code…
    comment by peoplefromibiza · 2022-09-06 · in My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020)
  17. …with no other changes. Wondering if anyone else can confirm faster builds with it hidden? [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/160118 [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks
    comment by tmpfile · 2022-09-05 · in Ask HN: Compiling VSCode project substantially faster with Panel closed
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    Ask HN: Compiling VSCode project substantially faster with Panel closed
    story by tmpfile · 2022-09-05 · 6 comments
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    VSCode releases new 3-way merge editor as default. Bad move
    story by linearza · 2022-08-31 · 0 comments
  20. …:o though looking at the history the number of recovery (point) releases have increased a lot https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
    comment by pas · 2022-08-30 · in DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
  21. If the message is to be believed (and the source code does agree: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/d32b92bd7a49ce8667b... ), the old settings still apply, the new one may default to 'all' but the old settings will override it, so…
    comment by rcxdude · 2022-08-23 · in VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
  22. …[0]: https://github.com/yandex/odyssey [1]: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute [3]: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Compiler-Notes/
    comment by fny · 2022-07-30 · in C++ Asynchronous Framework
  23. Microsoft's server implementation is here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/src/server-mai... Open VS Code Server takes this barebones implementation and fleshes it out enough to be minimally usable:…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-07-08 · in The Visual Studio Code Server
  24. …previously powering all of the remote development extensions). It's here in the main vscode repo ( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/src/vs/server ). There's vscode.dev (running vscode in the browser). That's apparently just a…
    comment by icegreentea2 · 2022-07-08 · in The Visual Studio Code Server
  25. …Qt 5: https://forum.qt.io/topic/67371/x11-forwarding-slow-on-qt-5-... Electron/Chromium: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/5243 Even my terminal emulator of choice; only fallback is software rendering. Hope you can stomach video…
    comment by jchw · 2022-06-17 · in Cool desktops don’t change
  26. …ttps://open-vsx.org/extension/xaberus/remote-oss [2] https://github.com/xaberus/vscode-remote-oss [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/main/extensions/vsc...
    comment by xaberus · 2022-06-12 · in I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
  27. …in VS Codium, but it is against the ToS of Microsoft's Marketplace to change it to theirs (see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issuecommen... for more details). As the linked comment also states, this is a big part of the…
    comment by filiptronicek · 2022-06-03 · in VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
  28. …build VSCode itself yourself. (But, I am not sure if that still doesn't have some non-free parts.) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...
    comment by shp0ngle · 2022-06-03 · in VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
  29. …space. Multi-cursor mode is great but it doesn't handle many cases the column selection does. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 5. Fix the broken "go to" (search result, definition, etc...). In most editors when you choose…
    comment by greggman3 · 2022-05-22 · in Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
  30. …tree is. VSCode for instance is used by millions of developers has 1.6k dependencies [1]. 1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/network/dependencies
    comment by hassy · 2022-05-11 · in Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the terminal
  31. …tried vscode a few times. I will not go back to try it again until it has emacs-style undo tree https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/20889 . Emacs bindings are no good if they do completely different things.
    comment by EnigmaCurry · 2022-04-29 · in Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure
  32. …the language used is almost 100% certainly a troll [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/165 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by redox99 · 2022-04-22 · in Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
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    VS Code Development Process
    story by tosh · 2022-04-21 · 3 comments
  34. VS Code doesn't have 3 way merge view, yet. Looks like it's coming soon, though https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37350
    comment by infensus · 2022-04-21 · in Take the pain out of Git conflict resolution: use diff3 (2017)
  35. …And while searching a bit, it seems that a similar UI is planned for VScode later in May 2022. Cf https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37350 [Btw, a comment mentions that Sublime Merge already has a UI similar to the one in IntelliJ]
    comment by lolive · 2022-04-21 · in Take the pain out of Git conflict resolution: use diff3 (2017)
  36. …is so fortunate. Look at the first screenshot in the official VSCode repository, for example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Only about 20% of the screen is taken up by code. That may still be somewhat usable if you keep it…
    comment by xigoi · 2022-04-11 · in Ask HN: Best practices for editing remote code locally?
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    VS Code: Provide API to access and change editor tab labels
    story by acqbu · 2022-03-24 · 0 comments
  38. …than missing or incomplete error highlighting. It will look good once I've finished the code. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/74798
    comment by veidr · 2022-03-21 · in CodeEdit: Building a free, open-source code editor for macOS
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    Visual Studio Code is randomly erasing included header files with latest update
    story by whack · 2022-03-19 · 44 comments
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    VSCode creates many empty file with invalid code automatically
    story by taubek · 2022-03-17 · 1 comment
  41. Untruths. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/package.json -> "electron": "13.5.1", Referenced github issue seems to have only random people unaffiliated with the project team.
    comment by marwis · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
  42. …for professional usage. It's actually faster (or comparable at least) to other "famous editors". > https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/118308 This doesn't have any actual technical content; it's essentially a variation of Rewrite It…
    comment by pizza234 · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
  43. …was not good. And they're probably going to move to because electron is still slow and terrible. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/118308
    comment by eyegor · 2022-02-01 · in Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
  44. …can you diss Electron when you see something like VS Code or Atom. Because you also see things like https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by int_19h · 2022-01-12 · in Is the madness ever going to end?
  45. VS Code is MIT Licensed - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode Arguably the MIT license gives you more Freedom than the GPL'd Linux kernel or GNU utilities. Trying to draw a distinction between "evil user-unfriendly Microsoft stuff" and…
    comment by jodrellblank · 2021-12-21 · in RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit
  46. …https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/shortcu... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/127365#issuecomme...
    comment by judge2020 · 2021-12-16 · in Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
  47. …written in Rust, and VSCode makes heavy use of WebGL, e.g. terminal. You should have gone through https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/package.json instead of main repo.
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-11-27 · in NodeOS – A Node.js Operating System
  48. There's very little native code in VS code: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode It's all typescript, even the main editor component monaco. You might be thinking of the atom editor which tried to do more native code for speed of editing…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2021-11-27 · in NodeOS – A Node.js Operating System
  49. …well thought out, so I’ll be giving that a try (with a vim emulation plugin, naturally) [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/126310 [1] https://youtu.be/x8y_6Gg28GI
    comment by jazzyjackson · 2021-11-17 · in Why Emacs: Redux
  50. Similar VS Code issue here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014
    comment by markdog12 · 2021-11-10 · in Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows