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.

Microsoft has made it incredibly easy to install Visual Studio Code for Java. A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the ...

Visual Studio Code 1.100 brings compact editor view Detached editor windows can now be displayed more compactly and the AI-supported GitHub Copilot Chat also receives new functions in this release.

Of course, Visual Studio Code isn’t the only code editor. There’s GitHub’s Atom, which has more than 1 million monthly active users, but it’s also older than Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible open source code editor, introduces improvements in the diff editor and GitHub pull request creation.