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It's only one sliver of the problem here, but -- do you know how often I update my code editor? Like once every five or ten years, to the version that was rele
by montroser 5mo ago
It's only one sliver of the problem here, but -- do you know how often I update my code editor? Like once every five or ten years, to the version that was released a year or two ago.
I do my own commits by hand so it's moot anyway, but there's a fair bit of "leopards ate my face" going in the GitHub thread.
- pitched 5mo agoVSCode updates itself what feels like daily so everyone is on the bleeding edge. There are upsides and downsides to that but it doesn’t feel like a trade-off many have made purposefully.
- ncallaway 5mo agoYou can disable auto-updates for VS Code, and you can install older versions of it.
- gertop 5mo agoVS Code is updated monthly. More and more they also release a bugfix to the monthly release, a week or two after.
- Cu3PO42 5mo agoThey switched to a weekly release cycle, presumably to compete with the perceived iteration speed of the many VS Code forks.