Zed is a completely new software coding text editor written entirely in the memory-safe Rust programming language.

Cursor is a free, open‑source code editor based on Visual Studio Code. It integrates large language models directly into your workflow, giving you AI‑powered autocomplete, inline code generation, a ...

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals writer for Lifehacker. She has a Master’s degree in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been writing professionally since 2018, creating ...

The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension, which brings language support for Apple’s Swift programming language to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, now is available on the Open VSX Registy, an ...

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find ...

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

Cleaner code with less effort.

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a ...