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> syntax highlighting, typechecking, linting, automatic git refreshes

In most languages, none of those things involve execution of code in the repo. In languages that do - for example Elixir - it prompts you to trust them first.

Visual Studio Code asks you if you trust the files in the folder you open, or at least it always has done for me. Presumably this stuff stops working if you don't?

I'm a Python dev so don't do much typescript, this sounds crazy too!