I downloaded and extracted VS Code in a Debian x64 VM and tried to run it. It complained about missing glibc libraries (I have 2.13, it needs 2.15). I followed these steps to get Ubuntu DEBs. Using those, VS Code throws a segmentation fault when I run it. gdb tells me:
linux_test_for_tracefork: waitpid: unexpected status 11.
Why won't Visual Studio Code run for me in my Debian VM?
Updating to Debian 8 fixed this problem.