Go to the Marketplace or use the integrated Extensions view and search for your desired programming language to find snippets, code completion/IntelliSense providers, linters, debuggers, and more. Note: If you want to change the display language of VS Code (for example, to Chinese), see the Display Language topic. Language specific documentation

You can have multiple Language Packs installed and select the current display language with the Configure Display Language command. Setting the Language. If you want to use a specific language for a VS Code session, you can use the command-line switch --locale to specify a locale when you launch VS Code.

Visual Studio Code IntelliSense is provided for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and Less out of the box. VS Code supports word-based completions for any programming language but can also be configured to have richer IntelliSense by installing a …

The R extension for Visual Studio Code supports extended syntax highlighting, code completion, linting, formatting, interacting with R terminals, viewing data, plots, workspace variables, help pages, managing packages and working with R Markdown documents.

VS Code detects the operating system's UI language and prompts you to install the appropriate Language Pack, if available on the Marketplace. To change the current display language: Open the Command Palette ( ⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P ) ).

Open VS Code. Select the Extensions view icon on the Activity bar or use the keyboard shortcut (⇧⌘X (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+X)). Search for 'C++'. Select Install. Set up your C++ Environment. C++ is a compiled language meaning your program's source code must be translated (compiled) before it can be run on your computer.

As opposed to traditional notebooks that are typically used with Python, the Polyglot Notebooks extension allows you to use multiple programming languages natively all in the same notebook in Visual Studio Code! No more needing wrapper libraries or magic commands to work with your favorite languages in the same notebook!

The Julia extension for Visual Studio Code includes built-in dynamic autocompletion, inline results, plot pane, integrated REPL, variable view, code navigation, and many other advanced language features.

Code in any language. VS Code supports almost every major programming language. Several ship in the box, like JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and HTML, but extensions for others can be found in the VS Code Marketplace.

When defining a new language identifier, use the following guidelines: Use the lowercased programming language name. Search for other extensions in the Marketplace to find out if a language identifier has already been used. Known language identifiers. The following table lists known language identifiers: