That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

News Java, Python Tooling Advances in VS Code By David Ramel 08/01/2024 Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python ...

The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code adds support for the latest edition of the language, Java 18. Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code dev team maintains extensions, including ...

Project Lombok, which received full support in the July 2022 update to Microsoft's Java on VS Code extensions, is designed to reduce boilerplate code, the amount of which is historically notorious in ...

Microsoft has made it incredibly easy to install Visual Studio Code for Java. A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Looking to bolster the appeal of Visual Studio Code to Java developers, Microsoft has published a roadmap for bringing new Java-related capabilities to the code editor. Among the goals is making ...

Microsoft is a major user of Java in Azure, SQL Server, Yammer, Minecraft, and LinkedIn, but it's only been supporting Java in Visual Studio Code tooling for the past five years. SEE: 10 ways to ...

The Java extensions within VSC are among the first to adopt the new Testing API from Visual Studio Code, with Microsoft making significant improvements to the Java testing experience with the ...