Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

It's offered as an extension to Visual Studio Code and is available to install now. But first, you must install Linux (and have an NVIDIA GPU).

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.

Microsoft debuted their Visual Studio 2015 Extension which provides for writing C++ code in VS2015, which can be compiled and executed on Linux/UNIX based systems during Build 2016.

Linux support, the most-requested feature for Visual Studio Code Live Share -- which allows real-time collaboration among developers on different machines and platforms -- was announced this week.

Using the new Visual Studio Code 1.33 (March 2019 version) is a snap -- of the Linux variety that lets the popular open source code editor be distributed as a snap package, containerized software ...

Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Code editor now open source Microsoft doubles down on cross-platform software development.