At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

Thanks to its incredible versatility and massive extension ecosystem, VS Code has been the undisputed champion of code ...

Software development tooling vendor JetBrains debuted a new lightweight code editor that can act like a full-fledged IDE, immediately drawing comparisons to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. The new ...

Discover the key differences between WebStorm and VS Code, including features, performance, and pricing, to choose the ideal tool for your development needs. WebStorm and Visual Studio Code target web ...

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The Visual Studio Code team continues to add Java functionality to Microsoft's open source, cross-platform code editor via extensions, just launching a new batch for working with Maven, Tomcat and ...

I wonder if Microsoft knew what it had on its hands back in 2015 when it created Visual Studio Code, the little code editor that could. Did the VS Code team even envision the free, open source code ...

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA. There was a time when your choices for Java IDEs were ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its hugely popular open-source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, which its creator, Microsoft technical fellow Erich Gamma ...

February 2022 release of Microsoft’s open source code editor also enhances debugging, audio cues, and VS Code for the Web. Visual Studio Code 1.65, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular source ...