# Apparent change of behavior of Revise with VS Code leads to bugs or repeated precompilation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/apparent-change-of-behavior-of-revise-with-vs-code-leads-to-bugs-or-repeated-precompilation/140174>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Tags:** vscode, revise\
**Created:** [October 23, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/apparent-change-of-behavior-of-revise-with-vs-code-leads-to-bugs-or-repeated-precompilation/140174 "2026-10-23T08:41:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/apparent-change-of-behavior-of-revise-with-vs-code-leads-to-bugs-or-repeated-precompilation/140174/1 "2026-10-23T08:41:20Z")

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I’m currently using Revise.jl in VS Code julia extension to track changes and update my code along the way.  
In particular, I am working on a package that has OrderedCollections.jl as an indirect dependency.

So far I just had Revise.jl in my global environment and it was automatically loaded by VS Code-julia transparently.  
Recent changes in either Revise.jl of VS Code-julia, I am not sure when or where this happened, lead to bugs or repeated precompilation of the packages in the `dev`-ed environment, and the finger is pointed at OrderedCollections as Revise.jl depends on it. Reloading julia only repeats the same problem.

My immediate solution was to add Revise.jl to the `dev`-ed environment to ensure homogeneous versions of the dependencies and deactivated the automatic loading.

I’m just wondering if it is a wrong usage on my part of the tooling or if it is some issue that I fail to properly understand.

Thanks for any help.