[montroser]

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]

VSCode 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]

You can disable auto-updates for VS Code, and you can install older versions of it.

[gertop]

VS Code is updated monthly. More and more they also release a bugfix to the monthly release, a week or two after.

[Cu3PO42]

They switched to a weekly release cycle, presumably to compete with the perceived iteration speed of the many VS Code forks.