VS Code Documentary Released: Early Go Support and Copilot Era Stories
rakyll · x · 2026-09-05
A new documentary tells the story behind VS Code. Engineer rakyll, who worked with the team twice—first bringing Go support to VS Code when the extension anchored Go tooling, and later while building GitHub Copilot—appears in it to recount how VS Code helped in Go's early days and calls it one of the industry's most remarkable projects.
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