Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and Its Forks with Free AI Assistants

author@junian.dev (Junian Triajianto) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0700

Let me get this straight. This is not a review post or anything like that.

I’m simply sharing a list of Visual Studio Code forks that include AI features, along with the companies behind them. This might be useful to some people.

There’s no doubt that Microsoft knows how to build great IDEs. I’ve been a long-time fan of Visual Studio (the full version, not the Code version), and VS Code comes in as my second favorite IDE. Even though VS Code is open source, there weren’t many serious forks competing with it in the past.

VSCode Avalonia Extension Download .NET Runtime Issue

author@junian.dev (Junian Triajianto) — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:08:38 +0700

So I want to start using AvaloniaUI on macOS, but suddenly it always happens.

AvaloniaTeam.vscode-avalonia requested to download the .NET Runtime. Downloading .NET version(s) 8.0.4~arm64 ….Error Failed to download .NET 8.0: Web Request to https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh Failed: n[r].split is not a function. Aborting. Please ensure that you are online.

To solve that, just open the VSCode settings.json and configure it with the following settings.

"dotnetAcquisitionExtension.existingDotnetPath": [
    {
        "extensionId": "ms-dotnettools.csharp",
        "path": "/usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet"
    },
    {
        "extensionId": "ms-dotnettools.csdevkit", 
        "path": "/usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet"
    },
    {
        "extensionId": "visualstudiotoolsforunity.vstuc", 
        "path": "/usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet"
    },
    {
        "extensionId": "AvaloniaTeam.vscode-avalonia", 
        "path": "/usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet"
    },
]

That’s it, now you can use AvaloniaUI on VSCode with auto-complete and everything.

Visual Studio Code on Junian Dev

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and Its Forks with Free AI Assistants

VSCode Avalonia Extension Download .NET Runtime Issue