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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. …it does not bundle ffmpeg because doing so would "infect"/burden it with heaps of GPL requirements. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100599 , https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
    comment by meetups323 · 2021-02-20 · in Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows
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    Visual Studio Code team considers Vim mode depending on upvotes
    story by dschuessler · 2021-02-16 · 27 comments
  3. For context: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between...
    comment by shuntress · 2021-02-12 · in Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi
  4. …a bug that came up in the final days of testing[0]. Insiders has been rock solid for me though. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/115646
    comment by easton · 2021-02-05 · in Visual Studio Code version 1.53
  5. …issues, is that VS Code needs a good hard look at its keyboard and text processing model. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/14028 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/14093
    comment by signal11 · 2021-01-18 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  6. …VS Code. For example -- this list from an author of a VS Code plugin that emulates Sublime[1]. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3776
    comment by signal11 · 2021-01-17 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  7. …for VScode. > fully embrace libre route VScode is open source and MIT licensed, here's the repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Someone would need to explain to me what values I'm forgoing in order to use this. Although I should warn…
    comment by antonvs · 2021-01-17 · in The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  8. …I personally would hope that Windows gets open sourced, but I'm not holding my breath. [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode [1]: https://github.com/microsoft [2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/ P.S. Can we not use the…
    comment by colejohnson66 · 2021-01-14 · in Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.2 beta 2
  9. …being (paraphrasing) "just read the source code" when asked what kind of data is collected. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284
    comment by alpaca128 · 2021-01-12 · in I received my first donation on my open-source side project
  10. …telemetry, as opposed to opt-in telemetry, usually violates GDPR. This issue is being discussed at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/47284 VSCodium is recommended as an alternative https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
    comment by johndough · 2021-01-12 · in I received my first donation on my open-source side project
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    VSCode Source Code Organization
    story by mfbx9da4 · 2021-01-01 · 0 comments
  12. There’s actually a request to add this functionality to VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/110115
    comment by VyperCard · 2020-12-29 · in Code Browser
  13. VSCode is a Microsoft product: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode - their core developers work at Microsoft
    comment by sciencewolf · 2020-12-19 · in Ask HN: How free editors such as Atom, Brackets, VS Code are monetized?
  14. We have a guide for it in microsoft/vscode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Selfhosting-on-Wind...
    comment by joaomoreno · 2020-12-17 · in GWSL: Run graphical Linux apps in WSL
  15. If your reluctance to use VSCode on Mac is related to terminal lag, check out this post for a fix. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/105446#issuecomme... I tend to use VSCode and/or Sublime Text myself
    comment by uberman · 2020-12-15 · in Ask HN: What’s as good on Mac as VS Code is on Windows for development?
  16. Whether one at a time is okay still depends on the app... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by int_19h · 2020-12-08 · in Qt 6.0
  17. * Firstly, may I ask are you using Vim extension? * Can you please follow instructions listed here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues#... to profile the renderer process when that happens (more accurately start the…
    comment by rebornix · 2020-11-24 · in VSCode memory leak issue marked “out-of-scope”
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    VSCode memory leak issue marked “out-of-scope”
    story by hajile · 2020-11-24 · 71 comments
  19. Go to the VS Code repo. It's written in TS and its one of the best examples of a well written TS app. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by stopyellingatme · 2020-11-20 · in TypeScript 4.1
  20. …lag from macOS code signing that affects me personally, please check out this GitHub issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/105446#issuecomme...
    comment by rubatuga · 2020-11-13 · in Forbidden Commands to Speed Up macOS
  21. …underscore or the next part of a camel case name). 5. Well this I can't do but never needed to. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84297#issuecommen...
    comment by 0-_-0 · 2020-11-10 · in Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
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    VSCode Feature Request Vote: Gutter Indicator, Without Git, Like Sublime Text
    story by Audiophilip · 2020-11-04 · 0 comments
  23. …of the criteria Visual Studio Code used to evaluate ripgrep was its permissive license.[1] [1] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/19983#issuecommen...
    comment by burntsushi · 2020-10-30 · in Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
  24. …that resulted in some non-offensive comments within those issues being deleted as well. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87440 Surely you can't continue to claim that open source communities do not suffer from such issues, now,…
    comment by wrsh07 · 2020-10-29 · in I Violated a Code of Conduct
  25. …than a week ago, they close the issue. The quest for the perfect issue grooming continues. Example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86409#issuecommen...
    comment by diggan · 2020-10-21 · in Issue Grooming
  26. …the backlog milestone for this, which acts as the folder of issues they will eventually work on. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/milestone/8
    comment by jayflux · 2020-10-21 · in Issue Grooming
  27. Sure, there you have it: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...
    comment by eznzt · 2020-10-21 · in Issue Grooming
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    Issue Grooming
    story by pcr910303 · 2020-10-21 · 68 comments
  29. …[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2020/06/09/go-extension [4] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
    comment by jodrellblank · 2020-09-26 · in Toward a “modern” Emacs
  30. …page: https://code.visualstudio.com/api . It's also why we have very restricted API guidelines: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Extension-API-guide... We'd love to hear more about the lack of documentation you're referring to.…
    comment by joaomoreno · 2020-09-23 · in The Era of Visual Studio Code
  31. I adore VS Code. But I still find insane it does not have an overwrite mode! [1] [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/86671 & https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/1012
    comment by cek · 2020-09-22 · in The Era of Visual Studio Code
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    Official Support for VSCode on ARM/Raspberry Pi Linux (Armhf, Arm64)
    story by shrthnd · 2020-09-22 · 1 comment
  33. …I completely fault Apple for this, still doesn't change it looks like a dead end for now) [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764
    comment by hrktb · 2020-09-16 · in Nova by Panic
  34. …start VSCode because my internet was offline. Turns out it was an electron bug. (This issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7570 ). I've been suspicious of electron ever since.
    comment by jbay808 · 2020-09-04 · in Winamp Skin Museum
  35. …their own telemetry generally ignore the telemetry setting on the editor itself. One such example: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/49161
    comment by sneak · 2020-08-28 · in Editor Overload
  36. …or build from source (with reference that the Microsoft specific functionality is not present: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60#issuecomment-1... )
    comment by wastedhours · 2020-08-28 · in Editor Overload
  37. ICYMI: This bug from 2017 was triaged, fixed and in the insider build in less than 2 weeks (!!) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
    comment by mceachen · 2020-08-23 · in Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?
  38. An actual href'd link to the issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/100335 Again, sorry if this isn't kosher.
    comment by dutzi_ · 2020-08-12 · in VSCode feature request: Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs
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    VSCode feature request: Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs
    story by dutzi_ · 2020-08-12 · 2 comments
  40. …ours or Microsoft's (with the caveat that you would violate their license). See this thread: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issue-24453...
    comment by nhooyr · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
  41. …The github page for "Visual Studio Code" prominently displays "Open Source" in its title: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode I'm willing to be convinced that it's a marketing deception and "open source" should be removed but so far, I…
    comment by jasode · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
  42. You can look at the source code on GitHub here and compile it yourself if you want... https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tree/master/src
    comment by benbristow · 2020-08-04 · in The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
  43. …hat from Visual Studio Code due to one user. Ironically the issue currently has 18 down-votes. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by sharken · 2020-08-02 · in Facebook hate-speech boycott had little effect on revenue
  44. …requests, most of the non-VSCode-specific feature requests have been solved (somewhere) by Emacs: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3A... I will say that this was way worse a couple of years ago. They seem to have…
    comment by bananaface · 2020-07-16 · in Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
  45. …up with another word/phrase for whites to be guilty about, and therefore need to be changed. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
    comment by gruez · 2020-07-07 · in Red Hat to remove contentious terms like master and slave from its source code
  46. …it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 I didn't know that Santa Claus was a religious symbol, I celebrate with Santa and I do not…
    comment by TravHatesMe · 2020-07-05 · in Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)
  47. …like source control, menus, language configuration - the full protocol is defined here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/workb... We aim to integrate with that back-end extension host process - in other words, to…
    comment by bryphe · 2020-06-24 · in Onivim 2: Lightweight, Modal Code Editor
  48. …and that (apparently) is a fair bit of work to bring to ARM (though it's being worked on) [0] [0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/6442
    comment by ryan-allen · 2020-06-22 · in ARM Mac Impact on Intel
  49. I don't think VS Code actually supports background color styles for syntax highlighting. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3429 I ran into this trying to do a Code theme a few months ago. (My favorite light theme -- and I am…
    comment by chipotle_coyote · 2020-06-12 · in Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
  50. Which issue is that? This was one of my big ones: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/23931 Cramming literally everything into that tiny sidebar and making you constantly resize it when you switch between files, search, git is one…
    comment by dflock · 2020-05-29 · in Folding-markdown: Adds header folding for Markdown files in Atom