VSCodium/vscodium

binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

33.6k stars · 1.9k forks · Shell

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 83% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 21
Human commits, 90 days: 53
Human commits, 365 days: 231
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 13%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 10
Last release: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Median PR merge time: 4 hours

Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 30% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 231 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 131

Top committers

daiyam: 83% of commits
lex-ibm: 4% of commits
bhaskarvilles: 1% of commits
DetachHead: 1% of commits
ThadHouse: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Sep 18, 2018 to Sep 20, 2018: about 231 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 5, 2019 to Apr 6, 2019: about 45 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 9, 2019 to Apr 25, 2019: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 259 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 4, 2019 to Dec 6, 2019: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 7, 2020 to Jun 11, 2020: about 570 more stars than usual, peak 219 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jun 18, 2020 to Jun 22, 2020: about 220 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 3, 2022 to Jun 4, 2022: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 12, 2022 to Jun 17, 2022: about 271 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 11, 2023 to Feb 14, 2023: about 176 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: VSCodium/vscodium

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

Computed 12 hours ago · method 2026.10.2