The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19.

That has changed somewhat. Among other innovations, Visual Studio Code now has good support for editing, running, and debugging Java code through a set of Java-specific extensions.

Microsoft's Java in Visual Studio Code has been updated with new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

With the June 2021 release of VS Code, Microsoft also unveiled plans for improving the editor’s Java support in coming months. Microsoft has released version 1.58 of Visual Studio Code, also ...

Java 19 shipped a month ago with a preview of Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency thanks to Project Loom, the backing tech responsible for one of many debugging improvements in the October 2022 ...