---
title: "This Week in Programming: Visual Studio Code Arrives on the Web – The New Stack"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-programming-visual-studio-code-arrives-on-the-web-the-new-stack-5w2n4eezg
source_url: https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-visual-studio-code-arrives-on-the-web/
type: article
source: "The New Stack"
published: 2021-10-23T13:15:21.614Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:26:40.481Z
tags: ["cloud", "devtools", "general-programming", "github", "open-source"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 36
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# This Week in Programming: Visual Studio Code Arrives on the Web – The New Stack

**[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 36 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

VS Code for the Web isn’t really a fully-functional version of VS Code running in the browser, as it has no backend to back it up. Its primary purpose is for client-side HTML, JavaScript, and CSS applications. Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich said he expects this to be just the beginning.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@maqueen** · 0 upvotes

> yes

**@maz12211** · 0 upvotes

> Now I can code in my tablet.

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