The reach of Microsoft's super-popular, open source-based Visual Studio Code editor is still expanding, now supplying the tech for two of the most prominent code repository platforms, GitHub and ...

GitLab's strategy is to integrate AI more closely into the development platform. The Duo Agent Platform in Visual Studio is now available as a beta.

With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

You can commit your code, deploy it, monitor it, and then start planning the next set of modifications without leaving GitLab.

That may come as a bit of a surprise, given that GitLab partnered with Google for other AI features, including its code completion service. “We had not chosen [a model] for chat,” DeSanto told me.