1. My Microsoft Word For Mac Keeps Crashing
2. My Mac Keeps Crashing
3. Mac Crashing
4. Outlook 365 For Mac Keeps Crashing

After Visual Studio crashed, it started to behave unexpectedly and keeps crashing even more. When run, it's showing some weird characters as shown below:

For others who met similar crashes: you should check OS X crash log (in Console app) to see what exactly is the call stack. That either shows a hint on what might be the cause (when the solution in this thread did not help), or gives you something to report to Visual Studio Code guys.

and it is also missing some extensions which can't be started.

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My Microsoft Word For Mac Keeps Crashing

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While running, this command should check where Visual Studio stores its caches and other files:

Then removal of cache folder should solve the problem after quitting the app:

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