Published May 13, 2026, 3:00 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Despite Cursor and Antigravity making the rounds, VS Code is still the only code editor I need for my programming tasks. Sure, it doesn’t have the same bells-and-whistles as its AI-heavy offshoots, but it’s the perfect companion for my local-only setup. In fact, I’ve been using it ever since I got into coding my own apps, and despite some minor quirks, I doubt I’ll be ditching VS Code anytime soon. That said, my old VS Code had started to feel somewhat sluggish as of late, and the extra visual elements I’d added over the years didn’t make things any better, either.…