We also re-designed our welcome view and help center page so that newcomers can find the guidance they needed. In 2021, we have made several improvements in this area including a new in-product welcome experience for Java developers in Visual Studio Code. New getting started experienceīetter getting started experience is always one of the top priorities. The extension now has more than 230K downloads and we expect to continue to iterate on the extension. In October 2021, we officially released the “ Gradle for Java” extension to address developer’s Gradle needs.

Gradle support has always been one of the top asks in the community. In addition, we also made a series of optimization on code completion performance starting from version 0.78.Īs a result, we have seen a decrease of 60% of our average code completion response time. This release contained many important features such as Java 17 support, easier type hierarchy lookup, source lookup, Gradle Kotlin (.kts) support and so on. In 2021, we released the official 1.0 version of Language Support for Java which marks a significant milestone and result of multi-year collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat. Among those achievements, we’d like to highlight a few important ones: 1. We have made substantial improvements on all extensions in the Extension Pack for Java.

Highlights of 2021Ģ021 was a productive year for Java on Visual Studio Code. We also have some exciting feature updates so let us get started. Since this is our first blog post of the new year, we are going to look back on highlights of 2021 and take a look at our roadmap for 2022! Hi everyone, welcome to the January edition of Visual Studio Code Java update!

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