Visual Studio Code can now run on Raspberry Pi and Chromebook with ARM

Microsoft has made Visual Studio Code suitable for Linux ARMv7 and ARM64. Developers can run the ARM builds on, for example, the Raspberry Pi, Odroids, Chromebooks with ARM socs, and other devices with ARM processors.

The Linux ARM builds of Visual Studio Code for Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora and SUSE appeared with the release of version 1.50 of the software, which is the September 2020 release. Until now, users had to deploy community builds of Visual Studio Code if they wanted to use the editor on Chrome OS on ARM, Raspberry Pi’s and Odroids. These are based on the open source edition of VS Code.

Microsoft points out in its own release for Linux ARM that users can use Remote Development extensions if they need more powerful systems than the ARM devices. Users can then, for example, use a container or the Windows Subsystem for Linux as a development environment.

Other changes from version 1.50 of Visual Studio Code on Windows, macOS and Linux include an improvement in filtering in the debug console, new features in the JS debugger, such as real-time performance viewing, support for Webview Views, and improvements in the display of pinned tabs.