<p><a href="https://github.com/thewhitetulip" class="user-mention">@thewhitetulip</a> Geany is a C language program, it must be compiled for specific target systems and the Geany project itself does not provide those binaries as part of the project (except for Windows for historical reasons) so, Geany cannot upgrade itself because it does not know where the binaries to do that are. VS Code is Javascript and does not need to be compiled so it can load itself anywhere.</p>
<p>Also note, github issues are specific issues, please keep them on topic and ask random questions like this on the Geany mailing list.</p>

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