New functionality to quickly launch Visual Studio Code in the browser is being infused into more dev tooling, including the Python extension that uses the Pylance language server for language-specific ...

Chris Wanstrath was in love with Emacs. Emacs is a nearly 40-year-old computer program that lets you, well, edit text. It's a way of tinkering with obscure files buried inside a computer's operating ...

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

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 ...

Developers who want a safe space to host their code repositories, and to distribute their programs to users, tend to choose GitHub, and rightfully so. The platform is home to over 65 million ...

The company has set 15 December as the last official day Atom will be in operation. But a ‘successor’ is in sight. After more than a decade of helping software developers write code, GitHub is ...

GitHub is once again pushing the boundaries of AI in software development. In its latest update, GitHub Copilot introduces Agent Mode — a preview feature that redefines how developers interact with ...

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type. GitHub has launched a preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based coding ...

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 ...