

We've been working with multiple teams on the Visual Studio side to make this happen (I work as the product lead on Codespaces)," reads a comment from Matt Colyer. "Codespaces uses the same underlying technology as Visual Studio Codespaces to bring a fully GitHub-native experience to our GitHub users.

GitHub's Codespaces provides a fully-featured, cloud-hosted dev environment - "the full Visual Studio Code experience" - directly within GitHub, a software development platform and code repository with an open-source focus.Ī comment on the developer-oriented social site Hacker News explains the similarities. Visual Studio Codespaces provides cloud-powered development environments, with coding done in a browser-based editor, Visual Studio Code or the flagship Visual Studio IDE. Seemingly feeling the need to stir up some more naming confusion, Microsoft-owned GitHub this week announced Codespaces - a new cloud-hosted development environment based on Visual Studio Code - just a week after Visual Studio Online was renamed Visual Studio Codespaces.Īlthough the two products are different (see the screenshots below), they use the same underlying technology.
