Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.

Installing Visual Studio Code and setting up a virtual environment For this project, we are going to use the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor, which you can get for free from their website.