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Speaking of which, as a light user of VS Code, is anyone else completely confused by the project / workspace interface? I'm always confused as to what project or workspace I'm in and what file is associated with what workspace, and what mode I'm in. The UX could use some love with the onboarding experience.

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I open a new window for each project, so I don't share this pain.

This. I wasn't even aware I could use a single window, need to look it up.

I've done this, but the performance tanks over several large projects --- this doesn't happen in separate windows.

Tried it, but I didn't like how single window seemed to work with the VCS detection. And I found it generally too messy to keep track of what files belonged to what project.

I just have a few vscode windows open in fullscreen on my laptop. So I just switch to whatever one I need to use at that time. It's never really more than 3 at a time.

I think there's a plugin for it but workspaces would be much more valuable to me if they weren't a file you saved. The idea, I assume, is something like "these 10 repos with these 15 plugins are how I deploy this project."

In the end due to its UX I think it's pretty useless. I do use it on BIG projects because sometimes vscode will update or barf and forget what I had open.

I mostly just do "open folders in workspace" then hope it never goes away.

Not at all. You can open a directory, or a workspace. A workspace is just a collection of directories.

If you want a confusing workspace/project system try Eclipse!

Actually, the designer of Eclipse’s and VS Code’s extension system is the same person: Eric Gamma from Gang of four.

We weren't discussing the extension system. Workspaces are a core feature of both IDEs. Still, that's an interesting fact!

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