I don't know too much about internals, but it has plugins like https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical which lets you configure

I don't know too much about internals, but it has plugins like https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical which lets you configure windows to be on certain tags automatically, but as far as I know, there's no save state. That would save me ages when I undock. It supports launching apps when it starts as well. VSCode sounds like windows, though. I know the OSX space of tiling window managers is terrible and it's been years since I've used windows, but bugn was my goto back then.