Microsoft's Java on VS Code dev team is responsible for the Extension Pack for Java on Visual Studio Code in the editor's marketplace, which sports 15.5 million installs. "Java 19 brings the first ...

In this cycle, the team added more code-completion shortcuts to generate code snippets, which were based on the Eclipse convention because Java-specific functionality comes from the Eclipse JDT ...

“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

Among the goals is making it easier to migrate to VS Code from other Java IDEs. There are now more than 1.5 million Java developers using the code editor, Microsoft said.

Install the Java Project Manager extension. When the installation completes, VS Code will be fully capable to validate source code, create Maven projects, run tests and execute Java classes that have ...