"Not only is Visual Studio Code the most used IDE for five years in a row, it is also consistently ranked the most desired IDE. Developers that haven't used VS Code overwhelmingly want to use it in ...

With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

GitHub Copilot’s upgraded coding agent, now accessible through a new agents panel, lets Visual Studio and VS Code developers ...

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

That is quite a lot of flexibility for a code editor, which is possible thanks to Visual Studio Code architecture: We can do this because VS Code is, by design, a multi-process application.

On Windows, Visual Studio Code’s base install footprint is about 376 MB; for Theia IDE, it’s 658 MB. This leads to another major difference between Theia IDE and VS Code.

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in ...