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I installed VS Code from https://code.headmelted.com/ and any time that a syntax highlighter is available I get an error saying the mode has failed while tokenizing the input. This breaks the usefulness of VS Code. Has anyone else had this issue? Has anyone found a solution?

I vaguely recall getting similar issues when I was developing a syntax highlighting package for use with VS Code. It could be that some files are wrong, missing or corrupt, have wrong line-endings or the like. As a package I'm not sure why something might not be right.

Trying Code-OSS from headmelted, installed some time ago, it seems to be working for me, highlighting C and Python code differently. Though does keep "recommending" for Python even though installed and being used

It may perhaps depend on how you installed Code-OSS. This is what I used -

viewtopic.php?t=191342

If you cannot resolve the issue you may have to contact headmelted or Microsoft as it likely isn't a Pi-related issue per se. What OS and Code-OSS version do you have ? Under Raspbian Stretch, Pi 3B, Help->About for me shows -

Version 1.14.0
Commit c5e3....
Date 2017-06-09....
Shell 1.6.6
Renderer 56.0.2924.87
Node 7.4.0

I'd ask the system builder - he's on Twitter @headmelted.