HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
microsoft
vscode
TypeScript2015–2026
microsoft / vscode

vscode

Visual Studio Code

Developer ToolsWeb DevelopmentMobile & Desktop
Explore on GitHubRead Hacker News discussions
573Distinct people
730Mentions
8Explicit recommenders
195.3KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Visual Studio Code

GitHub

Where it is used

  • OWASP cve-lite-cli (examples / case studies) — The OWASP cve-lite-cli repository (examples/readme.md) includes an explicit in-repo snapshot/case study that names microsoft/vscode and describes scanning its root lockfile as an example dataset. Source

What people are saying

My favorite new CSS feature is the Custom Highlight API, which allows you to style arbitrary (and potentially overlapping!) text ranges without needing to create ad hoc <span>…

aragonite used a recommendation phrase. 9 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:17:07 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year730 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-18 15:52:45 UTC to 2026-10-30 18:10:55 UTC.

0204060801002015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 77 mentions; 3 submissions, 74 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 89 mentions; 16 submissions, 73 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 67 mentions; 9 submissions, 58 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 55 mentions; 11 submissions, 44 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 74 mentions; 13 submissions, 61 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 67 mentions; 8 submissions, 59 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 49 mentions; 8 submissions, 41 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 67 mentions; 15 submissions, 52 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 60 mentions; 15 submissions, 45 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 59 mentions; 14 submissions, 45 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 59 mentions; 16 submissions, 43 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC77374
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC891673
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC67958
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC551144
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC741361
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC67859
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC49841
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC671552
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC601545
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC591445
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC591643

What Hacker News says

74 sources
rebornix·Nov 24, 2020
* 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 profile before the hang happens and stop after). Usually extension should not block the typing so it might be something bad in the core. Once you have it captured, please file an issue Thanks in advance for the help.
In VSCode memory leak issue marked “out-of-scope”
0-_-0·Nov 10, 2020
Thank you. 1. Notepad++ has macros when I need it. 2. Rectangular selection is available is VSCode and I use it a lot. The generalisation, multiple cursors (with each cursor having its own clipboard), is the best thing since sliced bread in a text editor. 3. I don't have undo tree, I can see it being useful sometimes. Hope it appears in VSCode soon [1]. Fequent automated backups (file history) works OK as an alternative. 4. Ctrl+left, ctrl+right jumps a word in every editor in Windows. In VSCode you can also jump a fraction of a word (to an 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...
In Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
burntsushi·Oct 30, 2020
> This is a false dichotomy. There is no false dichotomy because I never set up any kind of dichotomy. I'm just listing examples of folks that I want to use my code. And you left off the rest of my quote that explains in a bit more detail: > Given the current intellectual property regime, corporations are incentivized against the use of copyleft software in a large variety of circumstances. Thus, copyleft software, particularly libraries, is regularly avoided by corporations. Since some of these corporations also play a huge role in the FOSS world itself, this leads to systemic network effects that push folks strongly towards the use of permissive licenses. Thus, putting aside ideology and activism, it is simply a reality that if I publish a library with a copyleft license, it's less likely to be used by folks, which is inhibits my goal.
Read the rest
The fact that corporations do use copyleft in some places doesn't negate this point at all. It's pretty clear that there are a wide variety of circumstances in which copyleft is avoided. This isn't theoretical or hand wavy. I have direct experience with this. One of the criteria Visual Studio Code used to evaluate ripgrep was its permissive license.[1] [1] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/19983#issuecommen...
In Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
wrsh07·Oct 29, 2020
I can understand how you might think that code repos are different from other social media sites. However, they aren't. They require moderation because people are rude even when not anonymous. Here's a quote from the vscode repo moderators: > We deleted a handful of comments which we deemed too offensive to leave as-is (foul language, racist remarks, etc.). We also deleted a few issues that were overwhelmingly offensive. Unfortunately, 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, right?
In I Violated a Code of Conduct

Showing the 15 most recent of 74 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.