Microsoft’s Monaco JavaScript library powers its own editors. Now you can build it into your own code.

Gunawinata recommends using Visual Studio Code to play around with the samples, but Visual Studio 2019 works as well. Hanselman also invited his readers to contribute to the open source project.

The first preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.6 boosts GitHub integration and also sees AI-assisted IntelliCode instantly offering up real-world API code examples -- no more context switching required.

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