ByteDance, best known in the west for TikTok, has a new AI-infused code editor forked from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.

Trae is ByteDance's take on Visual Studio Code, but some digging raised some questions, which the company has now responded ...

The newer AI-enabled editors like Claude Code and Cursor are attracting interest from developers already using the industry ...

As far as this tool vs. VS Code is concerned, Firebase Studio gets the win because of the agentic AI and the prototyping tool ...

Microsoft makes mention of the official C# Dev Kit extension for VS Code as an alternative for Mac users, alongside its Dev Box cloud VMs (or any other VM you can use Windows with on a Mac).

As implied, the move comes amid long-running concerns over telemetry and data privacy in Microsoft's development tooling. While VS Code itself is built on the open source Code - OSS base, the official ...