I was using VS Code on Mac OS 10.10.5 Yosemite, without problems but even though at VS Code's site there's a claim that it works on version 10.10+, it seems there was a change because after I installed and linked it to Anaconda, first it failed to load and now is also giving an error when I opened Electron, inside the package it returned this
Process: Electron [2136]
Path: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron
Identifier: Electron
Version: ???
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: bash [1969]
Responsible: Terminal [388]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2021-05-13 00:53:58.380 -0300
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F2511)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 4A727D22-D456-25CE-01E7-5229FC050D38
Sleep/Wake UUID: 00E47028-065E-46DE-A826-6A0637E80EF6
Time Awake Since Boot: 44000 seconds
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: ___NSArray0__
Referenced from: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ReactiveObjC.framework/ReactiveObjC (which was built for Mac OS X 10.11)
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
in /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ReactiveObjC.framework/ReactiveObjC
and also the same information is in Terminal if you run Electron
Referenced from: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ReactiveObjC.framework/ReactiveObjC (which was built for Mac OS X 10.11)
so it seems they quietly discontinued support for Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite ... When I tried to open the app using the finder I got an alert saying 'this is an application for Mac OS 10.11 an onwards ...', among other things.
I downloaded the Jan2021 older version of VS code and was able to successfully download and launch it. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_53