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Star momentum, maintenance concentration, contributor health, and codebase change — one report built from public repository data.

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Current stars
192,577
Activity since
2015
Latest activity
Sep 2026

Public star activity

Last 30 days
+420
Last 90 days
+463
Actions / day
52
Public star actions
stars from November 18, 2015 to September 15, 2026, peaking at 206,617.207k STARS10 YR 10 MO207kSEP 2026NOV 2015

206,617 stars on September 15, 2026.

stars by date
Datestars
November 18, 20152,383
December 7, 20158,814
December 17, 20159,227
January 6, 20169,844
January 26, 201610,557
February 5, 201610,856
February 24, 201611,449
March 15, 201612,127
March 24, 201612,455
April 13, 201613,155
May 2, 201614,694
May 12, 201615,111
June 1, 201615,783
June 20, 201616,374
June 30, 201616,667
July 19, 201617,247
August 8, 201617,784
August 18, 201618,031
September 6, 201618,574
September 26, 201619,293
October 5, 201619,576
October 25, 201620,356
November 13, 201621,071
November 23, 201621,542
December 13, 201622,180
January 1, 201722,944
January 11, 201723,442
January 30, 201724,612
February 19, 201726,175
March 1, 201726,709
March 20, 201728,014
April 9, 201729,173
April 18, 201729,833
May 8, 201731,028
May 28, 201732,068
June 6, 201732,413
June 26, 201733,477
July 15, 201734,453
July 25, 201734,959
August 14, 201736,020
September 2, 201737,134
September 12, 201737,632
October 1, 201738,869
October 21, 201740,755
October 31, 201741,520
November 19, 201743,481
December 9, 201744,933
December 18, 201745,579
January 7, 201846,712
January 26, 201848,152
February 5, 201848,874
February 25, 201850,277
March 16, 201851,675
March 26, 201852,355
April 15, 201853,537
May 5, 201854,752
May 15, 201855,400
June 3, 201856,926
June 23, 201859,449
July 2, 201859,974
July 22, 201861,178
August 10, 201862,717
August 30, 201864,059
September 9, 201864,675
September 28, 201866,260
October 18, 201867,987
October 27, 201868,666
November 16, 201869,884
December 6, 201871,067
December 15, 201871,627
January 4, 201972,660
January 23, 201973,860
February 2, 201974,418
February 22, 201975,895
March 13, 201977,616
March 23, 201978,537
April 11, 201980,057
May 1, 201981,586
May 11, 201982,812
May 30, 201984,408
June 19, 201985,838
June 28, 201986,410
July 18, 201987,675
August 6, 201988,740
August 16, 201989,434
September 5, 201990,603
September 24, 201991,789
October 4, 201992,358
October 23, 201993,473
November 12, 201995,143
November 22, 201996,063
December 11, 201997,381
December 31, 201998,749
January 9, 202099,235
January 29, 2020100,332
February 17, 2020101,324
February 27, 2020101,929
March 18, 2020103,094
April 6, 2020104,272
April 16, 2020105,029
May 5, 2020106,405
May 25, 2020107,915
June 4, 2020108,613
June 23, 2020109,893
July 13, 2020111,212
July 23, 2020112,029
August 11, 2020113,224
September 1, 2020114,614
September 10, 2020115,156
September 30, 2020116,336
October 19, 2020117,524
October 29, 2020118,098
November 18, 2020119,286
December 7, 2020120,374
December 17, 2020121,246
January 5, 2021122,301
January 25, 2021123,469
February 4, 2021124,114
February 23, 2021125,574
March 15, 2021127,140
March 24, 2021127,671
April 13, 2021128,953
May 2, 2021130,043
May 15, 2021130,518
June 4, 2021131,517
June 23, 2021132,693
July 3, 2021133,185
July 22, 2021134,434
August 11, 2021135,582
August 21, 2021136,102
September 11, 2021137,002
October 1, 2021137,979
October 10, 2021138,260
November 2, 2021138,713
November 21, 2021139,866
December 1, 2021140,360
December 21, 2021141,403
January 9, 2022142,287
January 19, 2022142,814
February 8, 2022143,933
February 27, 2022144,836
March 9, 2022145,396
March 28, 2022146,380
April 17, 2022147,452
April 27, 2022147,960
May 16, 2022149,159
June 5, 2022150,115
June 14, 2022150,557
July 4, 2022151,403
July 23, 2022152,402
August 2, 2022152,871
August 22, 2022153,850
September 10, 2022154,772
September 20, 2022155,221
October 9, 2022156,089
October 29, 2022157,224
November 8, 2022157,652
November 27, 2022158,413
December 17, 2022159,359
December 26, 2022159,742
January 15, 2023160,588
February 3, 2023161,445
February 13, 2023161,996
March 5, 2023162,888
March 24, 2023163,819
April 3, 2023164,297
April 22, 2023165,261
May 12, 2023166,247
May 22, 2023166,643
June 10, 2023167,497
June 30, 2023168,281
July 10, 2023168,754
July 29, 2023169,490
August 18, 2023170,331
August 27, 2023171,170
September 16, 2023172,358
October 5, 2023173,096
October 15, 2023173,476
November 4, 2023174,218
November 23, 2023175,011
December 13, 2023175,832
December 22, 2023176,188
January 11, 2024176,951
January 30, 2024177,725
February 9, 2024178,187
February 29, 2024179,183
March 19, 2024179,937
March 29, 2024180,348
April 17, 2024181,080
May 7, 2024181,964
May 17, 2024182,394
June 5, 2024183,056
June 25, 2024183,910
July 4, 2024184,259
July 24, 2024185,217
August 12, 2024185,944
August 22, 2024186,369
September 11, 2024187,202
September 30, 2024188,093
October 10, 2024188,518
October 29, 2024189,221
November 18, 2024190,132
November 28, 2024190,500
December 17, 2024191,156
January 6, 2025191,922
January 16, 2025192,422
February 4, 2025193,234
February 24, 2025194,248
March 5, 2025194,668
March 25, 2025195,813
April 13, 2025196,727
April 23, 2025197,144
May 13, 2025197,984
June 1, 2025199,626
June 11, 2025199,957
June 30, 2025200,534
July 20, 2025201,093
July 30, 2025201,382
August 18, 2025201,944
September 7, 2025202,402
September 16, 2025202,602
October 6, 2025202,997
October 30, 2025203,302
November 9, 2025203,508
November 29, 2025203,872
December 18, 2025204,211
December 28, 2025204,398
January 16, 2026204,754
February 5, 2026205,040
February 15, 2026205,184
March 6, 2026205,410
March 26, 2026205,651
April 4, 2026205,736
April 24, 2026205,924
May 13, 2026206,045
May 23, 2026206,086
June 13, 2026206,154
July 15, 2026206,197
August 19, 2026206,210
September 15, 2026206,617

The last 90 days run behind its lifetime average, which is ordinary for a mature project.

Observed activity milestones: 100 around Nov 20151k around Nov 201510k around Jan 2016100k around Jan 2020

The commit history reads microsoft/vscode a second time

methodology

Fix-labelled changes, file change frequency, ownership concentration and maintenance cadence, each computed from this repository's analyzed commit window. None of them is derived from stars, which is why they are allowed to disagree with the curve above.

Fix-labelled changes
Fix-labelled changes for microsoft/vscode
File change frequency
File change frequency for microsoft/vscode
Bus factor
Bus factor for microsoft/vscode
Maintenance pulse
Maintenance pulse for microsoft/vscode
Contributors
Contributors for microsoft/vscode
Language activity
Language activity for microsoft/vscode
Commit activity
Commit activity for microsoft/vscode
Recent TODO/FIXME movement
Recent TODO/FIXME movement for microsoft/vscode

Attention is not adoption.

Stars against usage

No published package was detected for this repository, so there is nothing to lay over star growth.

Earned badges

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Maintenance, ownership and star-momentum signals, computed from the same commit and star history and embeddable as static images.

Reading badge evidence for microsoft/vscode.

Notes on microsoft/vscode

How many stars does microsoft/vscode have?
GitHub currently reports 192,577 stars for microsoft/vscode. The chart itself is rebuilt from historical star data, which records star actions and not unstars, so it reads as an attention signal rather than a net star count.
What does recent star activity look like for vscode?
gitdebt observed about 463 public star actions for microsoft/vscode over the latest 90 days of archive coverage (about 420 in the latest 30). This is an approximate attention signal, not a net-star count, because unstars are not present. That's below its lifetime average activity pace, which is common for mature projects.
Is vscode still active?
Public archive data shows about 420 star actions for microsoft/vscode in the latest 30 days of coverage. For repository activity, use the commit heatmap, commit trend, and contributor charts on this page.
When was vscode created?
microsoft/vscode was created on September 3, 2015. The first public star activity observed for microsoft/vscode is from Nov 2015.

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