When we only care about VS Code Core, we want to disable all extension related staff to accelerate build and debug pipelines.

build\npm\dirs.js Delete extension related directories.

npm run gulp compile-client

Clear builtInExtensions array in product.json

In .\scripts\code.bat, add --builtin-extensions-dir=empty, and if not exist empty mkdir empty to prepare an empty directories for VS Code to load extensions from.

Press F5.