Makefiles etc. Many types of projects use arbitrary setup and build commands or can load arbitrary plugins, and unlike VS which imposes its own project format, VSC tries to be compatible with everything that people already use. Git hooks are another one.

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andy_ppp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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direwolf20 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	andy_ppp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There’s no need to run that when opening a directory is there?