Visual Studio Code for Java: the Ultimate Guide 2019

Visual Studio Code has come a long way to become the preferred text editor of polyglot developers. Javascript, TypeScript, Go, Python, and other languages have a massive amount of developers coding through VS Code, in part thanks to the huge ecosystem of extensions that enhance and enrich the experience in VS Code, turning it into a super smart text editor with IDE-ish capabilities while remaining ludicrously fast and lightweight.

Unsurprisingly, VS Code can do Java as well, and many Java champions and speakers have chosen it for their on-stage appearances and live demos.