VS Code Killer
A VS Code killer that actually works.
Background
Recently, JetBrains released a public preview of their new IDE called Fleet. Many people in the programming community declared that Fleet would be the “VS Code killer”. So I installed Fleet on my computer and opened it, and to my disappointment, the VS Code instance running on my computer was not affected. I set out to create a new VS Code killer that actually works. The result is this project.
Structure
The frontend is written in Kotlin using Compose Desktop, and the backend is written in Rust as a command line tool.
Install
Backend
First, clone this repo and cd into the backend directory.
Then, run cargo build --release to build the vscode-killer binary.
Copy the binary to /usr/bin/ or somewhere else in your system PATH:
sudo cp target/release/vscode-killer /usr/bin/vscode-killer
You may need to copy it somewhere else if you are using Windows.
To test it, run vscode-killer and any running instance of VS Code should be killed.
Frontend
Go to the frontend directory:
cd ../frontend
Build the release binary for your system:
./gradlew packageReleaseDistributionForCurrentOS
This command might be slightly different on Windows.
Once the packaging is finished, you can install it to your system and run it.
Known Issues
Smart mode is currently unavailable, but it will be coming soon™.
Also, this app currently cannot kill the web version of VS Code. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Contributing
Please feel free to submit PRs and issues.
