Less than a month after Microsoft released a Visual Studio Code extension to provide Java debugging, the company announced it was such a big hit that it's been improved and open sourced, as promised.

The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code is focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features.

Visual Studio Code is getting more Java programming functionality in a new extension from Microsoft -- in collaboration with Red Hat -- that adds debugging capabilities.

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

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