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Visual Studio Code

by Microsoft

Top AppmacOSelectronv1.141.2
macOSWindows
Available onHomebrew
Runtime
electron
Electron v43.7.7
Size
987 MB
Architecture
Apple Silicon
Dependencies
334
32 categories
Released
last week
Scanned
today
Security
Excellent
All available checks passed (2 of 3 checks available)

Visual Studio Code is an Electron app (v43.7.7) that uses 334 detected dependencies across 32 categories including Runtime, Networking, Cryptography. It is code-signed. 987 MB on macOS (Apple Silicon). Released last week. Scanned today.

What is Visual Studio Code built with?

334 detected dependencies across 32 categories.

Runtime

1
Electron

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Networking

14
h2WebSocket (ws)url (Rust)ssh2ureqhyperundicireqwestfluent-uriiri-stringtungstenitehttp-body-utilhttp-proxy-agenthttps-proxy-agent

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Cryptography

16
aesrandRingsec1ahashblake3cipherrustlssubtleOpenSSLcrc32fastsignaturenative-tlssimple_asn1curve25519-daleksecurity-framework

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Media

5
gifpng (Rust)image (Rust)zune-imagecolor_quant

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Encoding

13
hexbstridnaitoamimeutf-8base64const-oidjschardetencoding_rsdata-encodingencoding_rs_iopercent-encoding

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Data Structure

11
lruslabbit-setbit-vectinyvecindexmapsmallvechashbrownsharded-slabstring_cachegeneric-array

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I/O

8
miowantbytesipnetanstreamhttparsematchersbyteorder

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Parser

21
nompemregex (Rust)memchrasn1-rstendrilhttpdatecssparserhtml5everuntrustedder-parserfancy-regexmarkup5everReadabilityshell-quotex509-parseraho-corasickjsonc-parserunsafe-libyamlform_urlencodedmarkup5ever_rcdom

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Compression

12
tar (Rust)zipyazlweezlyauzlflate2zlib-rszstd-safecompression-corecompression-codecsBrotlizlib

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Validation

2
Zodjsonschema

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Date & Time

6
jifftime (Rust)chronocronerfiletimechrono-tz

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Platform Binding

16
libc (Rust)napikoffiobjc2rustixos_infosysinfonode-ptygethostnamenative-keymapnode-addon-apicore-foundationnative-is-elevatedsignal-hook-registrysystem-configurationwindows-foreground-love

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Utility

8
openuuidanyhowsemverstrsimonce_celllazy_staticchrome-remote-interface

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Rich Text Editor

2
KaTeXTree-sitter

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Async Runtime

8
RayonTokiostackerparking_lotatomic-wakerfutures-rsthread_localcrossbeam

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Serialization

1
serde

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Web Server

1
Tower

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File System

8
whichignorenotifyglobsetmemmap2walkdirsame-filenotify-debouncer-full

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Auth

3
oauth2kerberosjsonwebtoken

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CLI

7
anstyleclapminimistCommander.jsindicatiftermcolorcolorchoice

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Security

2
keyringrustls-native-certs

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Database

2
rusqliteSQLite

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Cloud

3
aws-lc-rsAzure SDKGoogle Cloud

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Internationalization

2
sys-localei18n

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Feature Flags

1
tas-client

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Logging

1
tracing

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Desktop Framework

1
VS Code Extension API

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UI Framework

2
Xterm.jsFluent UI

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Machine Learning

2
OpenAIAnthropic SDK

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Observability

1
OpenTelemetry

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Testing

1
Playwright

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Other

52
ahpcidrhpkehtmdjavyvsdalexoptammonialitemapregresssalsa20zerovecmicromapwhatlangzerotrieahp-typesjiff-corepsl-typesrmp-serdewriteablenum-bigint@builtin/gi@mcp/i.testtiktoken-rskeyring-corenum-rationalportable-ptyfixed_decimalrquickjs-corefiledescriptor@builtin/i.test@enabled/i.test@disabled/i.test@outdated/i.testcrypto_secretboxjsonschema-regexjsonschema-valuelocal-ip-addressasync-compressionasync-tungstenitefoundry-local-sdkopentelemetry_sdk@devcontainers/cli@nativescript/coreopentelemetry-httpopentelemetry-otlp@github/copilot-sdk@restartrequired/i.test@pondwader/socks5-serverunicode-general-categoryapple-native-keyring-store@github/copilot-sdk-darwin-arm64

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Analyzed binary

SHA-256 of the exact binary Visual Studio Code was analyzed from.

SHA-256
2b161c9c62f7bc3bdc9753d0731e72227d4eb1cec89ed90b89f213a04ad9880d

Security and privacy

Code signing, notarization, and entitlement analysis for Visual Studio Code.

Code Signing

Excellent
Signed
Notarized — not checked
Hardened Runtime

Developer ID Application: Microsoft Corporation (UBF8T346G9)

Entitlements4

com.apple.security.automation.apple-events
com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit
com.apple.security.device.audio-input
com.apple.security.device.camera

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How popular is Visual Studio Code?

Popularity ranking based on install counts, store ratings, and community signals.

Popularity Tier
Ranked across all macOS apps
Top App

Popularity Score

100
100
Adoption
100
Mindshare
0
Store Rank

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When was Visual Studio Code last updated?

20 tracked releases since July 2026.

Latest: v1.141.2
October 14, 2026
v1.141.2
Oct 14, 2026
v1.141.1
Oct 13, 2026
v1.141.0
Oct 7, 2026
v1.140.0
Sep 30, 2026
v1.139.1
Sep 25, 2026
v1.139.0
Sep 23, 2026
v1.138.0
Sep 16, 2026
v1.137.0
Sep 9, 2026
v1.136.2
Sep 8, 2026
v1.136.1
Sep 3, 2026
v1.136.0
Sep 2, 2026
v1.135.0
Aug 26, 2026
v1.134.0
Aug 19, 2026
v1.133.0
Aug 12, 2026
v1.132.0
Aug 5, 2026
v1.5
Aug 5, 2026
v1.131.0
Jul 29, 2026
v1.130.0
Jul 22, 2026
v1.129.1
Jul 17, 2026
v1.129.0
Jul 15, 2026

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