GitHub Announces Cloud-Based IDE 'Codespaces' Based on Visual Studio Code By Techtonic group At its 'Satellite' virtual conference on Wednesday, GitHub announced four new products that it said will help software communities collaborate better online. The most notable one is a full-fledged cloud-based IDE called GitHub Codespaces based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. According to Shanku Niyogi, GitHub’s SVP of Product, "Codespaces gives you a fully-featured cloud-hosted dev environment that spins up in seconds, directly within GitHub, so you can start contributing to a project right away" . It is worth noting here that the cloud version of VS Code was itself renamed to Visual Studio Codespaces last week , which suggests that GitHub is now integrating those exact same tools with its service under a very similar name. Of course, GitHub is now owned by Microsoft after a controversial acquisition in 2018, so it is only to be expected that t...