Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific 'smarts' in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.

Zhu also noted significant user growth in the number of Java developers using VS Code last year, bringing the total to more than 1.5 million. Further speaking to the popularity of Java on VS Code, the ...

Java developers are increasingly using VS Code, which brings noticeable advancements and a primary integrated development environment.

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.

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

VS Code comes bundled with other Java support wrapped in the Extension Pack for Java, which is still in preview with an estimated 9.8 million installs. "Over the past few years, Microsoft have been ...

Given it's a text editor, people don't even need to know how to code to make use of the software. Even some journalists are using VS Code to write stories, according to Liuson. "The strategy for ...