Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license.

I've read some articles about Microsoft Code Editor but it's still unclear (for me at least) whether it can be used (or whether it will provide such a functionality in the future) just as SlickEditor.

The Jupyter extension brings Jupyter Notebook functionality into VS Code. It lets you create, open, and edit .ipynb files ...

Visual Studio Code 1.71, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces an easier transition between the text and merge editors, among a host of other improvements. Released ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

Company strips down its Shared Source Initiative to three licenses, one of which is modeled on the Mozilla Public License. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

Software development tooling vendor JetBrains debuted a new lightweight code editor that can act like a full-fledged IDE, immediately drawing comparisons to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. The new ...

Big if True: Microsoft recently teased some truly impressive performance improvements coming to TypeScript. The lead architect of the open-source programming language wants TS to deliver an excellent ...