Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) no longer works with derivative products such as VS Codium and Cursor – and some developers are crying foul.… In early April, programmers ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has reached a key milestone in its vision to transform VS Code into an open‑source AI editor. On 30 June 2025, the team announced that the GitHub Copilot ...

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