


"We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this iteration," said Microsoft in announcing Visual Studio Code v1.54 (February 2021). The default download is now the Universal Build, running on all Macs natively, while the architecture-specific builds (Intel and Apple Silicon) don't have to worry about the "universal" stuff so they are smaller downloads. That means VS Coders using Macs can now choose from three downloads: Universal, Intel Chip and Apple Silicon. Visual Studio Code has been updated with new builds that let it run natively on machines with Apple Silicon (M1), the company's own ARM64 chips. But those who wish to just install the M1 (or Intel) version of Code can do so as well.Goodbye Rosetta, hello M1. That is, they shouldn’t have to uninstall Visual Studio Code and then reinstall it. It’s not entirely clear, but I believe that users with M1-based Macs who update Visual Studio Code will simply get the Universal version of the app, which works natively on both M1- and Intel-based Macs. Troubleshooting extensions blog post – Learn to troubleshoot extensions using extension bisect.Brackets extensions – Use Brackets keyboard shortcuts in VS Code.Remote ports table view – Remote ports now shown in a table widget.


The February 2021 release of Visual Studio Code brings several new features to Microsoft’s modern code editor, key among support for M1-based Macs.
