microsoft/vscode

Visual Studio Code

Developer toolsTypeScript#editor#electron#visual-studio-code#typescript#microsoft

3.6 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 25, 2026, 21:40 UTC.

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About the project

Open-source repository of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code: a cross-platform code editor with editing, navigation, debugging and extensibility. It is the base for building Code - OSS and for community development.

Useful for

Build the editor from source for your platform
Develop a VS Code extension in TypeScript
Run the dev container to build and debug the editor

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

38 stars so far today, about 42 expected by the end of the day.
Hacker News: “Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor” — 42 points, 2 h ago.
About 144 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 192,915
Today: 38 · ≈ 42 by evening
Forks: 43,343
Issues and pull requests: 321,615
Watchers: 3,543
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Latest release: 1.139.1 · September 25, 2026
Created: September 3, 2015
Last push: September 25, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor42 points, September 25, 2026

Spotted in

September 25, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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