Issue #150 (Most Wanted VS Code Features)03/05/25
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What are the most-wanted features in VS Code as of this moment? Well, as you probably know, development of VS Code is fairly transparent, allowing for users to submit bug reports and feature requests on the GitHub repository.
You can view all the open issues here, but you can also sort the issues using different options.
For example, by default the issues are sorted by "Newest". If you click on "Newest", you'll see different ways to sort the list of issues (which is currently over 8,000!).
One of the ways to sort is by "Reactions", or more specifically, emojis like thumbs up, thumbs down, and hearts. This allows you to see which features are not yet implemented but are highly upvoted by users.
In addition, it might help to sort the issues to display only feature requests. You can do this by clicking the "Labels" filter option and searching for the "feature-requests" label.
There's also a "Feature" option under "Types" but that doesn't seem to bring up many issues. The "Label" filter brings up the correct results for this kind of search.
So at this moment, what are the most popular feature requests in VS Code?
- Allow users to change the font size and font of the workbench
- Allow users to customize mouse shortcuts
- Show all errors/warnings in a project for all JS/TS files, not just opened ones
- Add Vim mode like Sublime
- Add support for private marketplace/gallery
- Create a VS Code for iPad
Probably at least a few of those will be on there for a while before actually being implemented. Some (like the iPad one) will likely never be added.
Now on to this week's hand-picked links!
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VS Code Tools
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Grogg — A complete Kubernetes management solution inside VS Code, with multi-cluster support, an aggregated logger, resource actions, and more.
My Code Activity — A VS Code extension that seamlessly records your coding sessions and commits them to a GitHub repository, helping you maintain a detailed log of your programming activities.
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AirCodum — A smartphone-based remote control for VS Code, allowing you to transfer code, images, and files between your devices and VS Code, control VS Code instances running on your desktop right from your phone using text and voice.
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VS Code Theme of the Week
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Cobalt2 — A popular VS Code theme by Wes Bos, which many of you may already have tried at some point, or maybe you even use it as your primary theme. The original Cobalt, if I'm not mistaken, was a TextMate theme.
As you can see in the screenshot, the theme is quite colorful with good contrast and some decent choices for the UI as well. It has only the single theme in the package, so there's no light version or alternate dark.
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VS Code Articles & Videos
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Best of the Rest
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Glitch — A platform to build fast, full-stack web apps in your browser for free, allowing you to start a new blog, play with React, or build new worlds with WebXR.
Why I Still Like Sublime Text in 2025 — Makes a good case for still using Sublime today even though VS Code and some of the new AI-powered editors are continuing to dominate the market.
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llama.vim — A Vim plugin for LLM-assisted code/text completion, with features like auto-suggest on cursor movement, suggestion toggle, tab to accept a suggestion, and lots more.
If you have any link suggestions, including a tool, article, or other resource related to VS Code or another IDE, you can hit reply, send it via DM on X, or via chat on Bluesky.
That's it for this issue.
Happy VS Coding!
Louis
VSCode.Email
@LouisLazaris
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