VS Code is a popular choice because it’s free, flexible with lots of extensions, and has built-in Git support, making it a ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

A Visual Studio Code extension for the Bandit static analysis security tool, developed and maintained by the original authors of Bandit. This extension comes bundled with Bandit version 1.8.3. It is ...

VS Code has become the top choice for web developers. It’s been around only 8 years but has grown a lot. This is thanks to its huge library of extensions and how it boosts productivity. VS Code’s ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

Microsoft activated stricter license enforcement for its popular C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code earlier this month, a move that now prevents the add-on from working in unofficial VS Code ...

Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart. The conductor of my choir famously tells us singers, “I only want ...