Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

Despite August being a popular month for Visual Studio Code engineers to vacation, the dev team managed to churn out a bunch of new features in the regular monthly update, bringing the lightweight, ...

Of course, Visual Studio Code isn’t the only code editor. There’s GitHub’s Atom, which has more than 1 million monthly active users, but it’s also older than Visual Studio Code.

Floating windows are possible in Visual Studio Code: editors and selected views can be detached from the main window. In version 1.100, two new modes are now available for floating windows.

Like the ISE, Visual Studio Code also provides remote editing tools, allowing you to work with PowerShell on a remote server from your desktop. Opening a remote connection is easy enough using the ...

Static code analysis tools like Checkstyle and SonarQube. If you've ever wanted to experiment with a new IDE, it's worth dedicating a bit of time to download and install Visual Studio Code for Java.