vscode-peacock vs vscode-code-runner

vscode-peacock

Subtly change the color of your Visual Studio Code workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances, use VS Live Share, or use VS Code's Remote features, and you want to quickly identify your editor. (by johnpapa)

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vscode-code-runner

Code Runner for Visual Studio Code (by formulahendry)

VSCode TypeScript Runner Executor Visual Studio Code vscode-extension

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vscode-peacock		vscode-code-runner
	Project
1	Mentions	4
1,005	Stars	2,122
-	Growth	-
3.7	Activity	3.9
6 days ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

vscode-peacock

Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-peacock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Visual Studio Code: Peacock
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2021

vscode-code-runner

Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-code-runner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-19.

How do I give user inputs in VS Code?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 28 Nov 2022

Seems to be a common problem, and the fix suggests always the same: https://github.com/formulahendry/vscode-code-runner/issues/91
Visual Studio on Mac - how to print "Hello World"?
1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 5 Oct 2021
Coderun: code runner CLI that can automatically detect run any languages
4 projects | /r/commandline | 19 Feb 2021

After a long time searching for something like a CLI's version Code Runner asking people on r/kakoune and still doesn't find it, I decided to create my own with only 8 lines of pure sh:
How to solve this issue
1 project | /r/vscode | 13 Jan 2021

The solution that solved this problem is in this link.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vscode-peacock and vscode-code-runner you can also consider the following projects:

marp-vscode - Marp for VS Code: Create slide deck written in Marp Markdown on VS Code

vscode-live-server - Launch a development local Server with live reload feature for static & dynamic pages.

defold-vscode-build - Build, Run & Package Defold projects from Visual Studio Code

vscode-cmantic - C/C++ code generation for VS Code: Generate Definitions, Getters, Setters, and much more.

vsc-memer - vscode extension for making memes inside your code

vetur - Vue tooling for VS Code.

vscode-project-manager - Project Manager Extension for Visual Studio Code

bpkg - Lightweight bash package manager

vscode-pull-request-time - A Visual Studio Code extension that helps you to create smaller pull requests based on git modifications :octocat:

vscode-crystal-lang - Yet another VSCode extension for Crystal Programming Language

Shortcut-Menu-Bar-VSCode-Extension - Add handy buttons like beautify, show opened files, save, toggle terminal, etc to the editor menu bar in VSCode. You can also create your own buttons with custom commands. VSCode Marketplace link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jerrygoyal.shortcut-menu-bar