VS Code Will Be The Heart Of The Modern IBM i Platform

June 23, 2025 Sebastien Julliand

For application programmers, the workspace is not a place to sit with a screen, a keyboard, a chair, but rather is an integrated development environment within which code can be created, shared, compiled, and managed either inside the tool itself or through plug-in extensions that link it to other tools. IDEs have been around for decades and are not anything new. What is new is how suddenly popular one particular IDE – VS Code – has become.

For the past several years, nearly three quarters of the programmers in the world polled for the Stack Overflow Developer Survey say that …