By David Ramel November 1, 2022 The October update of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java has arrived with lots of improvements in the code editing and debugging experience, thanks to ...

Microsoft's installer for Visual Studio Code aims to help developers program in Java with the popular lightweight code editor by standardizing on the AdoptOpenJDK distribution of OpenJDK, the free ...

Although the Lombok library has been used by Java coders in VS Code, that use has been fraught with problems when combined with the Java on VS Code dev teams' tooling. Now, Microsoft has cleaned ...

Microsoft updates Java extensions for Visual Studio Code to make life easier for Java developers.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team for Java development added a new Coding Pack for Java installer and detailed best practices for setting up a development environment.

Developers using Java tooling with Visual Studio Code now have a better 'Getting Started' experience thanks to new functionality in the September Java extensions update.

Today, the company launched a new project that makes it significantly easier to get started with writing Java on VS Code.

When you compare Java vs. Python application development in terms of simplicity, conciseness, security and performance, Java comes out on top in every category.