That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

News Java, Python Tooling Advances in VS Code By David Ramel 08/01/2024 Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python ...

A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the rest. Simply accept all the defaults and the VS Code for Java installer performs ...

Developers wishing to provide feedback about Java support in Visual Studio Code can leave a comment on the roadmap blog post, open an issue in GitHub, or send an email to [email protected].

News Microsoft Updates Java in VS Code with Spring Functionality, Debugging By David Ramel August 30, 2022 Java developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) source-code editor will find ...