The number of watchers for the Visual Studio Code repository seems unusually high, equal to the number of stars, which might indicate a specific strategy to boost its popularity. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode?tab=readme-ov-file
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The number of watchers for the Visual Studio Code repository seems unusually high, equal to the number of stars, which might indicate a specific strategy to boost its popularity. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode?tab=readme-ov-file
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