Microsoft launched the free Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, and Linux in April 2016, but making Snap support finally brigs seamless auto-updates for Linux users.

Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

If you’re an R programmer hoping to try GitHub Copilot, you’ll need to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Here’s how to set up and use VS Code for R.

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.

Visual Studio Code for Linux is available on 32-bit ARM, 64-bit ARM, and 64-bit x86—even those Raspberry Pi boards can try it out.

Once Linux is enabled on your Chromebook getting up and running with Visual Studio Code is beyond simple. Head to the Visual Studio Code website. Download the .deb Debian package.

Visual Studio can now be used to remotely debug Linux applications using the GDB debugger. The Visual Studio Code editor that Microsoft released for Linux earlier this year was also open-sourced.

The four alternatives to Visual Studio Code we’ll examine below—Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor—are all available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with the slight exception of Zed ...

For the VS Code Marketplace extension, Linux support was requested on Sept. 21, 2017, with dozens of developers piling onboard. Speaking to the wide-ranging demand, developers said they wanted Linux ...