With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

The platform now supports Java 17 or higher and includes concurrency enhancements for Java 21, including Virtual Threads support for improved scalability. Jakarta EE is an open-source enterprise Java ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...