StarCoder, a new open-access large language model (LLM) for code generation from ServiceNow and Hugging Face, is now available for Visual Studio Code, positioned as an alternative to GitHub Copilot.

News Copilot Compared: Advanced AI Features in Visual Studio 2022 vs. VS Code By David Ramel 06/18/2025 GitHub Copilot continues to evolve in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, offering ...

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...

If you want to setup and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps mentioned in this tutorial.