# microsoft/vscode

> 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.

- Magnitude: 3.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 192,919 total · +42 stars today
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2015-09-03 · Last push: 2026-09-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode · Homepage: https://code.visualstudio.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/microsoft/vscode

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 42 stars today.
- Hacker News: “Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor” — 60 points, 2 h ago.
- About 113 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 43,344
- Issues and pull requests: 321,623
- Watchers: 3,543
- Average over the last week: 48 per day
- Usual pace: 132 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: 1.139.1 (2026-09-25)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-27 … 2026-09-25: 32, 46, 292, 44, 287, 47, 59, 395, 58, 70, 446, 96, 72, 93, 459, 54, 74, 406, 70, 40, 58, 50, 50, 41, 57, 31, 53, 44, 62, 42

## Hacker News

- Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor — 60 points, 35 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848838

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Data as of 2026-09-25 22:23 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.