And for “webby” languages such as JSON, HTML, and CSS, the coding experience is nearly identical to the desktop. In the browser, these are powered by language services running fully in the browser with no file system and no runtimes, with source tokenization provided along with syntax colorization, completions, and some single-file operations.įor most languages, VS Code for the Web offers code syntax colorization, text-based completions, and bracket pair colorization. On the desktop, these generally are powered by language services and compilers expecting a file system, runtime, and compute environment. For example, the terminal and debugger are unavailable, because developers cannot compile, debug, and run a Rust or Go application within the browser - although technologies such as Pyodide could change this.Ĭode editing, navigation, and browsing experiences are all a bit more nuanced, Microsoft said.

However, Microsoft cautioned that some experiences will be constrained compared to using a desktop app.

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