☕️ Did You Know You Can Code in Java with VSCode?

Tom Smykowski
2 min readSep 22, 2024

It might surprise you, but Visual Studio Code isn’t just for JavaScript — it’s also a powerful tool for Java development! With the Oracle Java extension, VSCode offers robust features like project exploration, JDK downloading, and advanced code refactoring

Actually it shouldn’t be a surprise, because VSCode is language agnostic. But for some reasons VSCode isn’t that popular among Java developers.

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I know people code in IntelliJ IDEA, another great IDE, or other editors like Eclipse, NetBeans etc. I almost forgot to mention Vim. And in Vim.

But you can code in Visual Studio Code too. Actually because Visual Studio Code is agnostic, for every setup there’s an extension to handle it. Specifically a language server. And there is one for Java as well. It’s developed by Oracle.

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Quite interestingly it has almost a million installs (918k to be precise).

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Tom Smykowski

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