VS Code Stop Support for Yosemite Mac OS 10.10 as Electron fails

Question

I was using VS Code on Mac OS 10.10.5 Yosemite, without problems but even though at VS Code's site there's a claim that it works on version 10.10+, it seems there was a change because after I installed and linked it to Anaconda, first it failed to load and now is also giving an error when I opened Electron, inside the package it returned this

Process:               Electron [2136]
Path:                  /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron
Identifier:            Electron
Version:               ???
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        bash [1969]
Responsible:           Terminal [388]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2021-05-13 00:53:58.380 -0300
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F2511)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        4A727D22-D456-25CE-01E7-5229FC050D38

Sleep/Wake UUID:       00E47028-065E-46DE-A826-6A0637E80EF6

Time Awake Since Boot: 44000 seconds

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: ___NSArray0__
  Referenced from: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ReactiveObjC.framework/ReactiveObjC (which was built for Mac OS X 10.11)
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
 in /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ReactiveObjC.framework/ReactiveObjC

and also the same information is in Terminal if you run Electron

Referenced from: /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ReactiveObjC.framework/ReactiveObjC (which was built for Mac OS X 10.11)

so it seems they quietly discontinued support for Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite... When I tried to open the app using the finder I got an alert saying 'this is an application for Mac OS 10.11 an onwards...', among other things.

Answer 1

I downloaded the Jan2021 older version of VS code and was able to successfully download and launch it. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_53