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.

Microsoft open sourced a Java debugger it developed for the lightweight, open source Visual Studio Code editor. About a month ago, the company released the VS Code extension to provide Java debugging, ...

It also supports Visual Studio source code control tools, he said, and, like other JNBridge products, Java.VS can be used to build solutions for any industry or application. Development teams ...