LELeonidBugaev·Dec 15, 2016
Worth noticing that VSCode currently have the biggest ever active community on Github https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17125
Over 1500 people, monthly, contribute to the project!
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- vscodium/vscodium · linked in 7 of the same discussions
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 77 | 3 | 74 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 89 | 16 | 73 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 67 | 9 | 58 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 55 | 11 | 44 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 74 | 13 | 61 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 67 | 8 | 59 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 49 | 8 | 41 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 67 | 15 | 52 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 60 | 15 | 45 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 59 | 14 | 45 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 59 | 16 | 43 |
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77 sourcesI'll be looking into this for 1.9, the issue tracking this is https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/14613
In Visual Studio Code 1.8FYI that's being tracked here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/15749
In Visual Studio Code 1.8Can't upvote this enough. One dev mentioned in a GitHub issue that the blue color is for branding reasons [1]. This is so absurd, it hurts. That status bar is the most distracting and annoying thing ever.
See link for suggestions how to mitigate. I use the tip from the person named sysrpl. VSCode is unusable with that blue color for me.
1: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1884
In Visual Studio Code 1.8About 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...
In Visual Studio Code 1.8It'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
In Visual Studio Code 1.8Microsoft's vscode project have the biggest ever open-source community
2 points · Open discussionTo be fair, VSCode is open source so you could go look if you were interested: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
In Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10> 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
In Announcing TypeScript 2.1An example of how they use telemetry can be seen in their issue tracker.
Here is an example: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/707
In Disassembling Sublime TextAwesome!
In the next release we'll hopefully have the "hot-exit" behavior like Sublime, where you can close the editor without having to save files, and they're back 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-...
In Visual Studio Code 1.7.2The relevant issues:
apt: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973
yum/dnf: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
In Visual Studio Code 1.7.2It really does blow my mind and it isn't at all like their monthly releases 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.
In Visual Studio Code 1.7.2What editor were you 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
In Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and toolsOriginally it sounded like you had VSCode installed on Windows but you're able to get all of the goodies (context sensitive code complete based on files in Linux) of it running on Linux -- without VcXsrv running on Windows.
I guess I just don't get how VSCode that's running on Windows can "see" and use the Linux filesystem. Is this something MS did that only works for VSCode (ie. it wouldn't be available with Sublime/Atom)?
Also it looks like VSCode doesn't work through VcXsrv according to this issue:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/13138
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