Microsoft s Visual Studio Code 1.54 runs on Apple Silicon
Latest upgrade of Microsoft’s open source code editor also boosts performance on Windows
With Microsoft’s release of Visual Studio Code 1.54, the open source code editor now runs natively on Apple Silicon computers.
Published March 4 and dubbed the February 2021 release, Visual Studio Code 1.54 features stable Apple Silicon builds. Apple Silicon was introduced by Apple last year as an ARM-based CPU to replace Intel CPUs in Mac computers.
Developers on Macs with M1 chips now can use Visual Studio Code without needing emulation via the Rosetta translation environment. Users will notice improved performance and longer battery life, Microsoft noted. The default download of Visual Studio Code for MacOS now is a universal build running natively on all Macs.
Visual Studio Code adds native support for Apple Silicon Macs
Mar 5, 2021 06:48 EST with 13 comments
Visual Studio Code, Microsoft s free cross-platform code editor, has received its February 2021 update this week, bringing it to version 1.54 for those using stable builds (via MSPoweruser). As you d expect, there are a handful of improvements, but one of the most notable additions this month is support for Apple Silicon Macs.
Up until now, you could use Visual Studio Code on the latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini with the Apple M1 chipset, but the app was designed for Intel processors, so you had to run it through Apple s Rosetta emulation layer. This lets Intel-based apps run on Apple Silicon, but you do lose some performance, so this update should help VS Code run a bit better on these new devices. We ve already seen a few apps add native support for Apple Silicon, and it s good that more are getting updated for it. Plus, it s been reporte
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Software-update: Visual Studio Code 1.54.1 Visual Studio Code is een opensourcecode-editor met ondersteuning voor IntelliSense, debugging, Git en code snippets. Downloads zijn beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en macOS. Ondersteuning voor de gangbare script- en programmeertalen is aanwezig en het kan daarnaast via extensies uitgebreid worden. Microsoft heeft versie 1.54.1 uitgebracht en sinds versie 1.53.2 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht: