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Provide everyone with their own virtual duck in VS Code. Introduce students to rubber duck debugging, a technique that involves talking to a rubber duck (or any inanimate, or even animate object) about a bug in their code. This virtual duck does not have, by design, any form of AI functionality.
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.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| debugger | #12of 1,929↓1 7d | — |
| debug | #45of 3,501 | — |
2 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
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11 releases · first published Jul 2022
CS50 Duck Debugger’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.