That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.

In the regular monthly (June 2022) update to Java on Visual Studio Code, the dev team announced enhanced Spring Boot functionality as part of a major "Spring Boot End-to-end Improvement" push ...

米Oracleは、米Microsoftが提供しているコードエディタVisual Studio Code向けの、Java拡張機能の一般提供を10月18日（現地時間）に開始した。

The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds support for the latest edition of the language, Java 18.

Planned Java-related improvements for VS Code range from smarter code completion and better debugging to deeper integration with Kubernetes and cloud services.

米Microsoftは、コードエディタ「Visual Studio Code」向けのJava関連機能アップデート2023年1月版を1月31日（現地時間）に公開した。 2023年1月版では、Javaアプリケーションのプロジェクトのインデックス作成にかかる時間を大幅に短縮した。

The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code for Java comes with updates in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to the Java 19 preview of Virtual Threads in Project Loom.