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.

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.

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 ...

Visual Studio Code extensions have been identified exploiting a loophole that allows reuse of names from removed packages ...

Preview 1 now has binaries for ARM64 on Windows and Linux builds, but not macOS. Microsoft also recently made ARM64 pushes for the VS Code C++ extension and a preview of WinUI 3. For VS Code, ...

The built-in code editor (CodeMirror in v3) supports syntax highlighting for over 160 programming languages right out of the ...

Inside Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight, and yet powerful source code editor that is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with built-in ...

Microsoft executives' comments about open source being a "cancer"--as well as the latest statistics on new licenses for Linux vs. Microsoft Windows--should be viewed with skepticism.

Visual Studio Code is a code optimized editor for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with support for IntelliSense (an intelligent code completion system), debugging, and GIT.

Microsoft made Visual Studio Code available for Linux as a Snap, supporting the containerized software package and seamless auto-updates for Linux users.