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

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support for the Model Context Protocol. The latest update to Visual Studio Code ...

Visual Studio, meanwhile, is a paid Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, that offers more features to help developers write, debug, edit, and deploy code — and manage entire projects.