Visual Studio is a powerful code editor with a lot of plugins (available in the Market Place) that are really awesome. But for any reasons, you may have to reinstall the application.

By example, you have something wrong with a plugin, a linter or with the global configuration. If you think the problem does not come from your code, you can try this.

Remove all settings

sudo rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Code

Remove all extensions

sudo rm -rf $HOME/.vscode

Remove application

AppCleaner is a small application that will remove all files in the system related to the application you want to uninstall.

Download AppCleaner and drop Visual Studio Code in the AppCleaner window to uninstall it.

Install again

Download and install Visual Studio Code again.