As far as this tool vs. VS Code is concerned, Firebase Studio gets the win because of the agentic AI and the prototyping tool, which makes it exponentially easier to create, debug, and deploy. On top ...

Agent mode, MCP, next edit suggestions, and more -- GitHub Copilot is getting smarter in both VS and VS Code. Here's a side-by-side look at what developers get in each IDE.

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 ...

News AI Coding Assistants Encroach on Copilot's Special GitHub Relationship By David Ramel 04/07/2025 Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and ...

Before now, GitHub Copilot in VS Code’s editor worked from the cursor position, but now it will look at other recent edits to predict what you might want to do next.