What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Develop Swift/iOS projects in VS Code
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.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| debuggers | #122of 1,519↓1 7d | #55of 514↓5 7d |
| swift | #4of 421 | #3of 106 |
5 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
166 releases · first published Jan 2024
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
SweetPad (iOS/Swift development)’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.