This is not possible. Quoting the reply of one of the team members (Andre Weinand) in #18253:
VS Code runs extensions on the node version that is built into electron (on which VS Code is based). This cannot be changed.
This is not possible. Quoting the reply of one of the team members (Andre Weinand) in #18253:
VS Code runs extensions on the node version that is built into electron (on which VS Code is based). This cannot be changed.