2.5 million devs can't be wrong – or can they?
To mark the milestone, the software giant gave developers a peek at the roadmap for the next six months – a collaboration with Red Hat, including full support for Java 21. Red Hat's arrival into the Visual Studio Code worldwith the 1.
0 release of Language Support for Java by Red Hat, which brought forth official support for Java 17. The IBM unit has continued its involvement, and the latest effort has contributed to this week's milestone.Microsoft Visual Studio: Cluttering up developer disks for 25 years As well as the JDK support, the team aims to deal with reliability issues – one of the most mentioned bugbears from Java users, according to Microsoft."We want to improve the stability of our platform so you can focus on your code without worrying about language server glitches or crashes, or code completion stops," the company said."We aim to build a stable and consistent coding experience for the users." Microsoft also has improving the Gradle developer experience and optimizing performance in its sights. Unsurprisingly, code completion was also mentioned, along with plans to improve the intelligence behind suggestions. And as if to remind developers that despite all the talk of community and collaboration, this is still a Microsoft project, talk of Copilot was shoe-horned in: "In the next few months we will explore how to leverage GitHub Copilot Chat to enhance your Java development experience, whether it's finding an error, writing unit tests, helping debug code, adding dependencies, or managing Java projects." Still, at least Microsoft managed to restrain the AI puff to a single line in the roadmap. Copilot aside, it looks exciting for Java developers using Visual Studio Code, and 2.5 million of them is quite the achievement. Depending onDevelopers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soonSponsored FeatureMicrosoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store'Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division
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