Visual Studio Code for Mac
Cross-platform code editor and debugger for web apps.
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Visual Studio Code overview
Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool - supporting OSX, Linux, and Windows - in the Visual Studio family.
At its heart, Visual Studio Code features a powerful, fast code editor great for day-to-day use. The Preview release of Code already has many of the features developers need in a code and text editor, including navigation, keyboard support with customizable bindings, syntax highlighting, bracket matching, auto indentation, and snippets, with support for dozens of languages.
For serious coding, developers often need to work with code as more than just text. Visual Studio Code includes built-in support for always-on IntelliSense code completion, richer semantic code understanding and navigation, and code refactoring. In the Preview, Code includes enriched built-in support for ASP.NET 5 development with C#, and Node.js development with TypeScript and JavaScript, powered by the same underlying technologies that drive Visual Studio. Code includes great tooling for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, and JSON. Code also integrates with package managers and repositories, and builds and other common tasks to make everyday workflows faster. And Code understands Git, and delivers great Git workflows and source diffs integrated with the editor.
What’s new in version 1.91.1
- Preview: Incoming/Outgoing changes graph - Visualize incoming and outgoing changes in the Source Control view.
- Python environments - Enhanced environment discovery with python-environment-tools.
- Smart Send in native REPL - Smoothly run code chunks in the native REPL.
- GitHub Copilot extensibility - Chat and Language Model APIs available in VS Code Stable.
- Preview: Profiles Editor - Manage your profiles in a single place.
- Custom tab labels - More variable options and support for multiple extensions.
- TypeScript 5.5 - Syntax checking for regular expressions and other language features.
- JavaScript Debugger - Inspect shadowed variables while debugging JavaScript.
Full list of changes available here
Visual Studio Code for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.91.1
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Oct 8 2023
Version: 1.83.0
10.15 seems to be the current requirement (seen on their "Other downloads" page)
Dec 10 2021
Version: 1.63.0
Like so many applications these days, this is built on Electron. It is not a native macOS application, nor does it behave like one. In addition, it's a memory and disk space-guzzler.
Jul 7 2021
Version: 1.57.1
1.57.0 causes the extensions manager to crash for many macoS users. 1.57.1 does NOT fix this bug.
Jun 22 2021
Version: 1.57.0
How to Build a Java Application in Visual Studio Code in 2021
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For years, Java development has been dominated by three leading IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans. But we have other suitable opportunities.
Mar 8 2021
Version: 1.54.1
Spoke too soon. The ftp-sync extension seems to work reasonably well in VSCode. Two others not so much, though.
