

Thanks to the community for self-hosting with the Insiders build and reporting issues early in the iteration.Īccording to a blog post on Microsoft’s website, Visual Studio Code 1.54 is now a universal binary providing native code for both Intel and ARM platforms. M1 Mac owners can now use VS Code without emulation with Rosetta, and will notice better performance and longer battery life when running VS Code. As a result of this programmers will appreciate a faster performance and longer battery life when running VSC on Apple silicon Macs.

As a dynamic binary translator, Rosetta translates Intel code to run on the ARM architecture without modification.īut now, Microsoft has updated VSC to include both Intel and ARM-specific code, which permits the software to run natively on M1-powered Mac computers without the need for Rosetta emulation. Like all existing Intel x86 Mac apps that haven’t been optimized for Apple’s M1 chip, VSC used to rely on Rosetta emulation to run on Apple silicon Macs.
