Show HN: I tracked the adoption of AI coding extensions in VS Code since 2022 (bloomberry.com)

A developer published an interactive dashboard that tracks the adoption of major AI coding extensions in Visual Studio Code by scraping the Visual Studio Marketplace daily since 2022. The dashboard visualizes 30-day moving averages of daily install counts (explicitly charting daily installs, not cumulative totals) for each extension, and includes a companion chart that shows the 30-day moving average of daily discussion posts about Cursor pulled from its Discourse forum via the Discourse API. This dataset and visualization matter because they offer a near-real-time, longitudinal view of market momentum, community engagement, and response to product events (releases, pricing changes, outages). Technically, the project relies on daily snapshots of marketplace install counts and forum post data, using smoothing (30-day MA) to reduce noise; that makes it useful for spotting trends, spikes and relative adoption rates across tools. Caveats include measurement limits (Marketplace install counters may be coarse or affected by bots, and installs ≠ active usage), and forum activity is only a proxy for user engagement or support load. Still, the dashboard is a practical resource for product teams, researchers, and investors wanting empirical signals about which AI coding tools are gaining or losing traction.