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I think these "recovery builds" are inevitable with the cadence they are maintaining on major releases.

Fastest moving MS project I've seen.

I'm really curious how big their team is that works on this. 2-pizza sized?

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It really does blow my mind and it isn't at all like their monthly releases are in any way small. Take November's one that they are currently working on for instance here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/30 there is just a bit under 500 different issues that this new release will touch on.

I'd be willing to send the team a couple pizza's for their work on this... It's my favorite product to ever come out of MS.

I believe they're in Switzerland, so you may want to be careful with that – or VSCode may become the most expensive software you're using this year :)

IIRC, there was/is a frequent stream of pizzas being delivered over the German-Swiss border because of the price difference – it got so much that they actually started to set up customs checks.

Okay, I'd be willing to order two U.S. typically priced large pizzas for the vs code team, assuming a reasonable option is available...

Void where prohibited, quantities limited, some restrictions may apply, batteries not included.

Looks to be ~20 people as far as I can tell (source: I'm a MS employee, not on the vscode team)

It's less than that. I used to be the designer on the team. For the initial release, we had 13 people.

With or without management overhead?

Touche. ;)

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