VS Code
VS Code (Visual Studio Code) is a lightweight, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux. It provides syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, built-in Git version control, and debugging tools. Through an extensive extension marketplace, it supports virtually all mainstream programming languages and development frameworks, making it a widely adopted cross-platform development tool.
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LSP (Language Server Protocol) is a communication protocol designed and open-sourced by Microsoft in 2016 for VS Code.
Cursor is an AI-native code editor deeply rebuilt on VS Code, integrating large language model capabilities and supporting code completion, code generation, codebase Q&A, and other functions.
Cursor is an independent AI-native IDE forked from VS Code.
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Connecting local models to VS Code can be done through third-party extensions (such as Continue or LM Studio's Copilot extension) or VS Code's native "Manage Language Models" feature (with a custom endpoint pointing to LM Studio), and the latter requires no cloud account login.
Fixed an issue where managed settings and organization policies were not fetched for the remainder of the session after logging in from the VS Code extension.
The wording of the usage hint changed from "session limit" to "5-hour limit", and the VS Code side now shows the specific reset time.
xterm.js is a terminal front-end component written in TypeScript, originally developed for VS Code's built-in terminal and adopted by VS Code, Hyper, Tabby and others.
The Host is the AI application (such as Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or VS Code), the Server is a small program that wraps a system and exposes its capabilities, and the Client lives inside the host, with one created for each server connection.
v2.1.311 fixes the issue where sending custom skills and slash commands from the VS Code or JetBrains panel lost the currently open file or selected lines (#102799), and the issue where on macOS and Linux the login shell reading PATH caused the extension host to freeze.
LSP has now become a de facto standard, widely supported by VS Code, Neovim, Emacs (via lsp-mode/eglot), Sublime Text, and others, covering dozens of programming languages.
Using VS Code open-source extensions (such as Continue and Cline) together with code models running locally via Ollama can achieve fully offline, zero-cost, zero-network AI programming assistance, but the hardware requires at least 16GB of memory.
The decoupled component library must handle theming, keyboard shortcuts, focus management, and accessibility on its own, which were originally handled uniformly by the editor in VS Code, and thus often requires a longer maturation period.
The UI of the VS Code extension runs in containers such as the Webview or native TreeView and Editor provided by VS Code, and is not fully freely customizable.
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LSP (Language Server Protocol) is a communication protocol designed and open-sourced by Microsoft in 2016 for VS Code.
90%VerifiedCursor is an AI-native code editor deeply rebuilt on VS Code, integrating large language model capabilities and supporting code completion, code generation, codebase Q&A, and other functions.
90%VerifiedCursor is an independent AI-native IDE forked from VS Code.
90%VerifiedGitHub Copilot由GitHub与OpenAI合作开发，深度集成于VS Code和JetBrains系列IDE
90%VerifiedCursor is an AI-native IDE deeply customized on top of VS Code, embedding the capabilities of large language models directly into every aspect of the editor.
90%VerifiedCursor is built on an open-source fork of VS Code (Code - OSS).
90%VerifiedCursor is an AI-native code editor launched by Anysphere in 2023, built as a deep modification of VS Code.
90%VerifiedCursor is an AI-native code editor developed by Anysphere, built on a deeply modified version of VS Code.
90%VerifiedThe VS Code extension marketplace currently has more than 50,000 extensions.
90%VerifiedVS Code currently has a usage rate of over 70% among developers worldwide.
80%VerifiedVS Code has more than 40,000 extension plugins.
80%VerifiedElectron是由GitHub开发的跨平台桌面应用框架，VS Code、Slack、Discord等应用都基于Electron构建
80%VerifiedMainstream development tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code already support the MCP protocol.
80%VerifiedCline是一个允许AI直接操作开发环境的编程助手，能够创建/编辑文件、执行终端命令、进行浏览器操作
80%VerifiedTrae is an AI-native integrated development environment launched by ByteDance in early 2025, deeply customized based on the open-source core of VS Code.
80%VerifiedTongyi Lingma is an AI programming tool developed by Alibaba based on the Tongyi Qianwen large model, deeply integrated into VS Code and JetBrains series IDEs.
80%VerifiedVS Code is an open-source code editor launched by Microsoft in 2015, built on the Electron framework.
80%VerifiedCursor is an AI-native code editor built on VS Code with deep integration of large models such as GPT-4 and Claude.
80%VerifiedWell-known applications such as VS Code, Slack, and Discord are all built using the Electron framework.
80%VerifiedClaude Code can be used in conjunction with VS Code by installing the official Anthropic plugin from the VS Code extension marketplace.
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