Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.

Powered by GitHub Copilot, Copilot Edits proposes code changes across multiple files in a workspace based on the user’s prompts.

Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible open source code editor, introduces improvements in the diff editor and GitHub pull request creation.

Visual Studio Code 1.100 brings compact editor view Detached editor windows can now be displayed more compactly and the AI-supported GitHub Copilot Chat also receives new functions in this release.

The January release of Visual Studio Code 1.9 is out with a bunch of fixes, updates and new features, including a new interactive playground that lets developers try out editing features immediately.