

Since committing to doing development in the open less than four months ago, we’ve consumed over 300 pull requests. We could not have reached this important milestone without the help of all our contributors. And, we have worked to make VS Code the most accessible of modern editors, with full keyboard navigation and support for screen reading and accessible navigation for visually impaired developers. VS Code is now fully localizable, and ships in 9 different languages, including French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. With this great ecosystem in place, we’re now confident in declaring our API as stable, and guaranteeing compatibility going forward.Īnd we have strived to make VS Code 1.0 a great editor for every developer.

Today, a broad range of developers from individuals and startups to Fortune 500 companies, including audiences completely new to Microsoft’s tools, are all more productive with a tool that fits comfortably into their current tool chain and workflow, and supports the technologies they use, from Go and Python to React Native and C++. But in less than 6 months since we made the product extensible, the community has built over 1000 extensions that now provide support for almost any language or runtime in VS Code. VS Code was initially built for developers creating web apps using JavaScript and TypeScript. And we’ve pushed hard on getting the best performance we can out of the editing experience. We have worked with the community to further improve stability, fixing hundreds of bugs. Getting to "1.0" over the last few months has been about more than features. Visual Studio Code brings the industry-leading experiences of Visual Studio to a streamlined development workflow, that can be a core part of the tool set of every developer, building any kind of application.

What started as an experiment to build a production quality editor using modern web technologies has blossomed into a new kind of cross-platform development tool, one that focuses on core developer productivity by centering the product on rich code editing and debugging experiences. Today, we’re excited to report that more than 500,000 developers actively use VS Code each month. Since our initial launch one year ago, 2 million developers have installed VS Code.
