What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Professional IDE for developing bare-metal and RTOS-based embedded applications with Cortex-M
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 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.
#19 on Open VSX for “embedded”, #97 on Marketplace.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| embedded | #97of 678↓1 7d | #19of 156↓1 7d |
| status bar | — | #593of 883↓19 7d |
One more search, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
127 releases · first published Aug 2022
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Arm Keil Studio Pack (MDK v6)’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.