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Dev tools · January 31, 2021

Chat for VSCode

Chat with your Slack and Discord teams from within VS Code

Chat for VSCode launched on January 31, 2021 with 87 votes, #452 of 3,157 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

This Visual Studio Code extension allows to easily chat with Slack and Discord directly from the IDEA without the need to change windows or apps.

Chat with your team while you collaborate over code using VS Live Share - arjunattam/vscode-chat

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