Microsoft has aligned VS Code's existing agent-plugin feature with a vendor-neutral format for portable skills and MCP servers.
Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.
Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.
After publicly touting pull request limits as a way to cut maintainer noise, GitHub is taking the same idea further with a new setting that lets repository admins restrict issue creation to collaborators only.
SkiaSharp 4.148.0 is the first stable v4 release, bringing a newer Skia engine, API cleanup, performance work and a Microsoft-Uno co-maintenance model.
Eclipse Open VSX has reached 1.0.0, highlighting its role as a vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions.
CNCF graduation, Microsoft tooling updates and cloud-provider support show broader OpenTelemetry adoption across developer platforms.
GitHub Spec Kit, open sourced last September as a toolkit for spec-driven development with AI coding agents, is seeing renewed attention as recent releases and a May 8 livestream show the project expanding around the idea that code should be generated from, governed by and traceable to specifications.
Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real‑world hybrid quantum workloads in chemistry, optimization, and machine learning.
Google's new Antigravity IDE spurred much developer debate focusing heavily on its apparent status as a Visual Studio Code fork, with developers debating why another fork is needed, what it means for the VS Code ecosystem, and how open source reuse, lock-in, and fragmentation should be handled in AI-focused development tools.
Microsoft has published a new post explaining GitHub Spec Kit, clarifying its experimental approach to spec-driven development and how its Specify CLI, prompts, and templates structure AI coding into specify/plan/tasks phases.
Microsoft introduced the Awesome Copilot MCP Server for GitHub Copilot customizations as the MCP community unveiled the official MCP Registry, a cross-company catalog for discovering servers.
GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, with details in the announcement and code in the repository.
Microsoft is rolling out a new Python Environments extension in VS Code, now reaching 20% of stable channel users. The tool provides a dedicated panel for creating, managing and assigning environments, with APIs for third-party integration, while also laying groundwork for community-driven environment manager support.
Learn what Project Orleans, an open-source, cross-platform framework from Microsoft for building distributed, scalable, and high-availability applications using the virtual actor model.
