"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 ...

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

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.

The August 2025 update for Visual Studio 2022 is now out, offering new AI capabilities and even ways to scale back AI ...

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.

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 ...