

If you would like to customize and persist your launch configuration, you can select the create a launch.json file link in the Run and Debug view. Configureīy default, the debugger will run out-of-box by automatically finding the main class and generating a default launch configuration in memory to launch your application. To get the complete Java language support in Visual Studio Code, you can install the Extension Pack for Java, which includes the Debugger for Java extension.įor details on how to get started with the extension pack, you can review the Getting Started with Java tutorial. If you run into any issues when using the features below, you can contact us by entering an issue.


VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer:

Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.
