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Comment by andy_ppp

5 hours ago

Please see the reply to the other comment, obviously I wasn’t explicit enough in explaining I’m talking about code execution simply by opening a directory.

Some project types, such as Gradle or Maven projects, use arbitrary commands or plugins in project setup. You have to run arbitrary plugins to know which directories are the source directories, and you have to know which directories are the source directories to do anything in Java.

  • There’s no need to run that when opening a directory is there?

    • If you just want to see the files in the directory, then sure. But VS Code is an IDE. It's made for editing software projects which have more structure than that.