Copilot for VS Code has 4.7 million installs and four stars in the Visual Studio Code marketplace, whereas Copilot for Visual Studio has 237,000 installs and two and half stars.Īccording to Product Manager Chris Dias, the idea for Chat came when “the VS Code team had an internal hackathon to explore how it could integrate AI into VS Code more deeply,” and “kept circling around the Chat experience.” The idea was to provide ChatGPT but within the context of a specific code base, to provide features like explaining code.

Microsoft took care to announce this first for Visual Studio, its commercial IDE, even though developers say that Copilot works better in the free VS Code. One that will grab attention is Copilot Chat, a chat-based UI for Microsoft’s AI-driven programming assistant. The most significant activity this month lies in preview releases which are part of an updated VS Code Insiders build, which includes features likely to come to the production release soon. TypeScript 5.0 is not a native feature of VS Code though. TypeScript 5.0 introduces Decorator Expressions, a way of customizing classes in a reusable manner, as we examined here. VS Code updates on a monthly cycle, but this is a quiet month for new features that are generally available – though it is notable that this is the first version to ship with TypeScript 5, released in the middle of last month.

Along with a Visual Studio Code update to version 1.77, Microsoft has previewed fresh features including a Data Wrangler for data scientists working in Python that will automatically generate code to transform data, and new Copilot integration that supports AI chat.

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