InfoWorld

What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...
The Next Web

GitHub claims its AI assistant is helping devs write 30% of their code (Updated)

Update 01/11/2021: GitHub clarified that the 30% figure of AI-generated is applicable to some languages, and not all the code on the platform. In an interview with Axios, Oege de Moor, VP of GitHub ...
ZDNet

How to use GitHub's AI coding assistant for free - and why it's worth a try

Before we begin, I will share one cautionary note. In my testing of the free GitHub Copilot's programming prowess, the AI failed half of my tests. That's not great. Paid subscriptions offer access to ...
InfoWorld

Code editors on the cutting edge

Is Eclipse overkill? Is Vim not enough? Then check out the new generation of code editors, led by Sublime Text, Atom, and Visual Studio Code Not every application needs a full-blown IDE. Tools like ...
The Verge

GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code

GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool called Copilot, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes code snippets. Copilot does more than just ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code and Python: A Natural Fit for Data Science

What do you get when you combine the No. 1 code editor with the No. 1 programming language for data science? You get more than 60 million installs of the Python ...