At its core, the Material Icon Theme replaces VS Code’s default file and folder icons with visually appealing, color icons ...

Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community ...

VS Code team open‑sourced GitHub Copilot Chat (MIT licence) and invites developers to explore, contribute and shape the AI ...

AI is reshaping how developers work -- boosting speed, reducing grunt work, and making “vibe coding” part of the workflow.

Microsoft has open sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension, marking a major step in turning VS Code into an open-source AI ...

CodeRabbit, the pioneer of the most advanced codebase-aware AI code reviews, today announced that it is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor (start a 14-day free trial here). The ...

Conversely, VS Code is a lightweight, open-source code editor. While a programmer can develop an app from start to finish within VS Code, it offers fewer features than a full development environment.

The four alternatives to Visual Studio Code we’ll examine below—Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor—are all available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with the slight exception of Zed ...

For our extension (VS Code for Education) we have a main webview content pane parked in editor group 1 that hosts our lesson content and we often have a runnable code file parked in editor group 2. To ...