Less than a month after Microsoft released a Visual Studio Code extension to provide Java debugging, the company announced it was such a big hit that it's been improved and open sourced, as promised.

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, ...

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Visual Studio Code is getting more Java programming functionality in a new extension from Microsoft that adds debugging capabilities. We earlier reported that, in view of the lack of support for Java ...

Java is one of the most important languages for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and Microsoft's latest update to its open-source cross-platform editor are designed to "make the product friendlier" to ...

Planned Java-related improvements for VS Code range from smarter code completion and better debugging to deeper integration with Kubernetes and cloud services. Looking to bolster the appeal of Visual ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...