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Debugger for Arm Cortex-M based microcontrollers (MCUs), development boards and debug probes, implementing the Microsoft Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP)
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 25 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#15 on Open VSX for “debug”, #424 on Marketplace.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| debug | #424of 3,507↑2 7d | #15of 467↓1 7d |
| debuggers | #374of 1,519↓8 7d | #39of 516↓3 7d |
4 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
89 releases · first published Aug 2022
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Arm Embedded Debugger’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.