Microsoft’s open source editor Visual Studio Code was updated this week with a major improvement for Mac M1 users. The tool is now fully compatible with the Apple Silicon platform, which means that it now runs natively on Macs with the M1 chip.
Visual Code Studio version 1.54 is the first stable version with support for Apple Silicon Macs. Developers no longer need to have Rosetta installed to run Microsoft’s VS Code on the new M1 Macs (and any other Macs that come in the future with an ARM processor).
Applications that run natively on the M1 offer better performance and are also more energy efficient, as they harness the full power of the new architecture instead of being emulated and translated from the old Intel platform.
We are happy to announce our first release of the stable Apple Silicon that builds this iteration. Mac users with M1 chips can now use the VS Code without emulation with Rosetta and will notice better performance and longer battery life when running the VS Code. We thank the community for staying with Insiders and reporting problems early in the iteration.
The latest version of Visual Studio Code is now available on the Microsoft website and can be downloaded free of charge. Microsoft notes that VS Code 1.54 for macOS is a universal binary, so it works on Intel and M1 Macs.
For more information on 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 the Microsoft website.
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