diff --git a/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh b/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh
index 20aee89edf9..eecdf9c68b5 100755
--- a/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh
+++ b/resources/darwin/bin/code.sh
@@ -3,8 +3,23 @@
 # Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 # Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
 
-function realpath() { python -c "import os,sys; print(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1]))" "$0"; }
-CONTENTS="$(dirname "$(dirname "$(dirname "$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")")")")"
+function app_realpath() {
+	SOURCE=$1
+	while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do
+		DIR=$(dirname "$SOURCE")
+		SOURCE=$(readlink "$SOURCE")
+		[[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE=$DIR/$SOURCE
+	done
+	SOURCE_DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
+	echo "${SOURCE_DIR%%${SOURCE_DIR#*.app}}"
+}
+
+APP_PATH="$(app_realpath "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
+if [ -z "$APP_PATH" ]; then
+	echo "Unable to determine app path from symlink : ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
+	exit 1
+fi
+CONTENTS="$APP_PATH/Contents"
 ELECTRON="$CONTENTS/MacOS/Electron"
 CLI="$CONTENTS/Resources/app/out/cli.js"
 ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 "$ELECTRON" "$CLI" --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node "$@"