Consolidation is never a good thing.
A smaller weekly VS Code release adds chat workflow refinements, semantic search changes, TypeScript 6.0, and new admin controls.
It says it is, but the reality is a little blurry.
OpenClaw's Node for VS Code extension proved it can support a real local file-based workflow, but on Windows the experience still feels more like early infrastructure than finished tooling.
Open VSX bug misread scanner failures as clean results, letting malicious VS Code extensions go live before patch in v0.32.0.