{"id":74623,"date":"2025-06-23T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arcadsoftware.com\/arcad\/?p=74623"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:02:53","slug":"vs-code-will-be-the-heart-of-the-modern-ibm-i-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arcadsoftware.com\/arcad\/news-events\/arcad-press-articles\/vs-code-will-be-the-heart-of-the-modern-ibm-i-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"VS Code Will Be The Heart Of The Modern IBM i Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:45px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:66.666666666667%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:2.88%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:2.88%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>For application programmers, the workspace is not a place to sit with a screen, a keyboard, a chair, but rather is an integrated development environment within which code can be created, shared, compiled, and managed either inside the tool itself or through plug-in extensions that link it to other tools. IDEs have been around for decades and are not anything new. What is new is how suddenly popular one particular IDE \u2013 VS Code \u2013 has become.<\/p>\n<p>For the past several years, nearly three quarters of the programmers in the world polled for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/survey.stackoverflow.co\/2024\/technology#1-integrated-development-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stack Overflow Developer Survey<\/a>\u00a0say that they use VS Code, the tool\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/vscode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">let loose as open source by Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0a decade ago as a glorified code editor that has gradually evolved into a true IDE and spread like wildfire across the Windows, Linux MacOS platforms. VS Code can be used to create programs written in C, C#, C++, Fortran, Go, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, and Julia on those platforms and, more recently, has been extended to work with the IBM i platform and its RPG, Java, and SQL applications.<\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itjungle.com\/2025\/06\/23\/vs-code-will-be-the-heart-of-the-modern-ibm-i-platform\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read this Article<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From RDi to VS Code: IBM i developers embrace a modern IDE with ARCAD extensions for build automation, code quality, testing, and continuous 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