Following last month's release of version 4.0 of Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, VS Code now ships with TypeScript 4.0.2.

Improved TypeScript doesn’t only improve your code, it also improves JavaScript support in the Visual Studio family of IDEs, with new tools for refactoring your code in both languages.

However, I didn't want to have to further learn TypeScript -- apparently the preferred extension language -- for more complex things. I use VS Code for my Visual Studio Magazine articles and have ...

VS Code version 1.42 is available today for Windows 10, macOS, and Linux systems, bringing a host of new features and improvements for developers and users on the Insider preview edition.