Official Kotlin Support for Visual Studio Code Is Now Available in Alpha

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Today at KotlinConf 2026, we announced the Alpha release of the official Kotlin extension for Visual Studio Code.

IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio remain the most complete environments for Kotlin development. But not every Kotlin developer works there every day. Some prefer VS Code, or already have it as part of their setup. Kotlin by JetBrains is an extension for those developers: official Kotlin language support in VS Code, powered by the Kotlin Language Server, with core features for reading, writing, and navigating Kotlin code.

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Official Kotlin Support for Visual Studio Code Is Now Available in Alpha | The Kotlin Blog

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