9:45 am March 3, 2025 By Julian Horsey If you’ve ever found yourself staring at your Visual Studio Code (VS Code) setup, wondering if it could work just a little harder for you, you’re not alone.

However, VS Code’s endless customizability is what truly sets it apart from its rivals, and there’s a barrage of extensions you can add to the code editor to boost its functionality even further.

Microsoft's effort to redesign several dev tooling icons came to light in a GitHub issue filed to request a new VS Code icon for Mac OS X in May 2016. Out of that discussion, new VS Code icons were ...