Vscode hangs if an unbuilt local workspace extension is installed about vscode HOT 6 OPEN

Updated the issue! Sorry I was trying to be concise. After the reload is when it happens. And I did a bit more testing, this only happens over ssh. I was able to install a local extension over ssh when it was built though, so this only happens when it's not built

Do you mean that if the extension's .vsix is in the extension dir, then the workspace will load?

A bunch of devs at my company ran into this too and our code-workspace got into a broken state. We have a few custom extensions in the .vscode/ directory at the root of our monorepo, and I moved them to .vscode/extensions, but it's just the source code and no .vsix. Although https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_88#_local-workspace-extensions implies that this feature is opt-in, on Insiders only, with the extensions.experimental.supportWorkspaceExtensions config, none of which are true for us, we were still prompted to install workspace extensions. After doing so and reloading the extension host, the workspace never loads over SSH. Even after reverting the change and restoring the extensions back to their original location, e.g. .vscode/hello-world-extension, and removing the .vscode/extensions dir, the workspace still wouldn't load. I discovered that I had to rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/CachedConfigurations locally in order to be able to load the workspace again.

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Also @pcasdf, it's no longer insiders only https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_89#_local-workspace-extensions

Oops, I need to read the release notes more carefully 😇 well that's unfortunate since it doesn't seem ready to be on stable.

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It is unclear and confusing to me what you are asking for. Summary and Description are not matching.
Summary says VS Code is unusable and I do not see anything related to that in the description.

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Updated the issue! Sorry I was trying to be concise. After the reload is when it happens. And I did a bit more testing, this only happens over ssh. I was able to install a local extension over ssh when it was built though, so this only happens when it's not built

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No I never made a vsix, just the compiled out/ dir needs to be there for local workspace extensions. It doesn't rely on a vsix at all, but I wish it had the option for it since not every repo has a node build system as part of its normal setup

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Also @pcasdf, it's no longer insiders only https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_89#_local-workspace-extensions

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