Fyi, tried different escape sequences for the windows command/path in json settings but the only thing that worked used davidanthoff’s workaround posted in vscode_issues_1006 to pass commands with multiple arguments:
"julia.additionalArgs": [
"-J", "C:\\CODE\\Julia\\VS_Code_ide\\VS_Code_Example\\MakieSys.so"
]
Makie’s plot appeared much faster when running Julia code afterwards.
It required as per Makie.jl instructions to add the following line of code after ‘using Makie’:
AbstractPlotting.__init__() # if Makie displays not working after compilation