It's more than just a code editor.
GPT-5.3-Codex moved to No. 1 in Quality on the Microsoft Foundry AI Model Leaderboard soon after release, while a cross-metric 'podium' scoring method put GPT-5-Nano on top overall for efficiency.
Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.
The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...