WakaTime, which does time tracking for programmers, released data for 2020 showing that Visual Studio Code is by far the top editor/IDE used by its coders, some of whom are hacking away for more than ...

The regular monthly update to Visual Studio Code (April 2021, v1.56) has a bunch of preview features that developers can try out, along with the usual raft of new functionality. "The VS Code team has ...

Where Visual Studio Code is lightweight but extensible, Visual Studio is heavyweight but complete. Many of the technologies in VS Code originated in Visual Studio, and it’s fairly easy to move ...

If you’re an R programmer hoping to try GitHub Copilot, you’ll need to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Here’s how to set up and use VS Code for R.