I build developer tools and services at Microsoft (currently Codespaces, Live Share, IntelliCode) and maintain some OSS projects (CodeTour, GistPad, CodeSwing, WikiLens)
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, there isn’t currently a way to turn this off, but we’ll prioritize the work to add a setting to disable it. We’ve actually been meaning to do that, but we were waiting to see if there was interest in that level of configurability. You’re not the only person that has found the comment gutter distracting, so we’ll try to get this change in the next release 👍
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Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, there isn’t currently a way to turn this off, but we’ll prioritize the work to add a setting to disable it. We’ve actually been meaning to do that, but we were waiting to see if there was interest in that level of configurability. You’re not the only person that has found the comment gutter distracting, so we’ll try to get this change in the next release 👍