At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Microsoft notes that VS Code 1.54 for macOS is a universal binary, so it runs on both Intel and M1 Macs.įor more information about what has changed in Visual Studio Code 1.54, in addition to support for Apple Silicon Macs, check out the full changelog for the update on Microsoft’s website.Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.

The latest version of Visual Studio Code is now available on Microsoft’s website and can be downloaded for free. Thanks to the community for self-hosting with the Insiders build and reporting issues early in the iteration. Users on Macs with M1 chips can now use VS Code without emulation with Rosetta, and will notice better performance and longer battery life when running VS Code.

We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this iteration. Developers no longer need to have Rosetta installed to run Microsoft’s VS Code on the new M1 Macs (and any other new Macs coming in the future with an ARM processor).Īpps that run natively on M1 offer better performance and are also more energy efficient as they take advantage of the full power of the new architecture instead of being emulated and translated from the old Intel platform. Version 1.54 of Visual Code Studio is the first stable release with support for Apple Silicon Macs. The tool is now fully compatible with the Apple Silicon platform, which means that it now runs natively on Macs with the M1 chip. Microsoft’s open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code, has been updated this week with a great enhancement for M1 Mac users.

Visual studio code now on m1