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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
192,562
Activity since
2015
Latest activity
Sep 2026

Public star activity

Last 30 days
+428
Last 90 days
+467
Actions / day
52
Public star actions
stars from November 18, 2015 to September 16, 2026, peaking at 206,626.207k STARS10 YR 10 MO207kSEP 2026NOV 2015

206,626 stars on September 16, 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 14, 201621,110
November 23, 201621,542
December 13, 201622,180
January 1, 201722,944
January 11, 201723,442
January 31, 201724,678
February 19, 201726,175
March 1, 201726,709
March 20, 201728,014
April 9, 201729,173
April 19, 201729,889
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 19, 201745,652
January 7, 201846,712
January 27, 201848,204
February 5, 201848,874
February 25, 201850,277
March 16, 201851,675
March 26, 201852,355
April 16, 201853,617
May 5, 201854,752
May 15, 201855,400
June 3, 201856,926
June 23, 201859,449
July 3, 201860,033
July 22, 201861,178
August 11, 201862,771
August 30, 201864,059
September 9, 201864,675
September 28, 201866,260
October 18, 201867,987
October 28, 201868,715
November 16, 201869,884
December 6, 201871,067
December 16, 201871,674
January 4, 201972,660
January 24, 201973,927
February 2, 201974,418
February 22, 201975,895
March 13, 201977,616
March 23, 201978,537
April 12, 201980,180
May 1, 201981,586
May 11, 201982,812
May 30, 201984,408
June 19, 201985,838
June 29, 201986,448
July 18, 201987,675
August 7, 201988,803
August 16, 201989,434
September 5, 201990,603
September 24, 201991,789
October 4, 201992,358
October 24, 201993,566
November 12, 201995,143
November 22, 201996,063
December 12, 201997,465
December 31, 201998,749
January 10, 202099,304
January 29, 2020100,332
February 18, 2020101,394
February 28, 2020101,989
March 18, 2020103,094
April 7, 2020104,340
April 16, 2020105,029
May 6, 2020106,485
May 25, 2020107,915
June 4, 2020108,613
June 24, 2020109,963
July 13, 2020111,212
July 23, 2020112,029
August 11, 2020113,224
September 1, 2020114,614
September 11, 2020115,235
September 30, 2020116,336
October 20, 2020117,577
October 30, 2020118,152
November 18, 2020119,286
December 8, 2020120,430
December 17, 2020121,246
January 6, 2021122,377
January 25, 2021123,469
February 4, 2021124,114
February 24, 2021125,650
March 15, 2021127,140
March 25, 2021127,727
April 13, 2021128,953
May 3, 2021130,078
May 16, 2021130,556
June 4, 2021131,517
June 24, 2021132,753
July 3, 2021133,185
July 23, 2021134,490
August 11, 2021135,582
August 21, 2021136,102
September 12, 2021137,042
October 1, 2021137,979
October 11, 2021138,287
November 3, 2021138,768
November 22, 2021139,914
December 2, 2021140,408
December 21, 2021141,403
January 10, 2022142,335
January 20, 2022142,871
February 8, 2022143,933
February 28, 2022144,880
March 9, 2022145,396
March 29, 2022146,424
April 17, 2022147,452
April 27, 2022147,960
May 17, 2022149,201
June 5, 2022150,115
June 15, 2022150,638
July 4, 2022151,403
July 24, 2022152,448
August 3, 2022152,926
August 22, 2022153,850
September 11, 2022154,803
September 21, 2022155,266
October 10, 2022156,133
October 30, 2022157,270
November 8, 2022157,652
November 28, 2022158,442
December 17, 2022159,359
December 27, 2022159,783
January 16, 2023160,641
February 4, 2023161,501
February 14, 2023162,041
March 5, 2023162,888
March 25, 2023163,854
April 4, 2023164,354
April 23, 2023165,313
May 13, 2023166,285
May 22, 2023166,643
June 11, 2023167,537
June 30, 2023168,281
July 10, 2023168,754
July 30, 2023169,544
August 18, 2023170,331
August 28, 2023171,260
September 17, 2023172,386
October 6, 2023173,133
October 16, 2023173,507
November 4, 2023174,218
November 24, 2023175,057
December 13, 2023175,832
December 23, 2023176,233
January 12, 2024176,997
January 31, 2024177,784
February 10, 2024178,227
February 29, 2024179,183
March 20, 2024179,971
March 30, 2024180,378
April 18, 2024181,134
May 8, 2024182,024
May 17, 2024182,394
June 6, 2024183,106
June 25, 2024183,910
July 5, 2024184,436
July 25, 2024185,251
August 13, 2024185,986
August 23, 2024186,402
September 12, 2024187,246
October 1, 2024188,140
October 11, 2024188,556
October 30, 2024189,261
November 19, 2024190,163
November 29, 2024190,535
December 18, 2024191,201
January 7, 2025191,977
January 16, 2025192,422
February 5, 2025193,270
February 24, 2025194,248
March 6, 2025194,732
March 26, 2025195,853
April 14, 2025196,770
April 24, 2025197,187
May 13, 2025197,984
June 2, 2025199,660
June 12, 2025199,986
July 1, 2025200,564
July 21, 2025201,128
July 30, 2025201,382
August 19, 2025201,964
September 8, 2025202,416
September 17, 2025202,621
October 7, 2025203,019
October 31, 2025203,317
November 10, 2025203,521
November 30, 2025203,892
December 19, 2025204,231
December 29, 2025204,424
January 17, 2026204,771
February 6, 2026205,056
February 16, 2026205,193
March 7, 2026205,428
March 27, 2026205,657
April 5, 2026205,752
April 25, 2026205,935
May 14, 2026206,049
May 24, 2026206,094
June 14, 2026206,159
July 16, 2026206,198
August 21, 2026206,212
September 16, 2026206,626

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 192,562 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 467 public star actions for microsoft/vscode over the latest 90 days of archive coverage (about 428 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 428 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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