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Oracle Leans on VS Code for New AI Dev Tooling
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Oracle has integrated Visual Studio Code as the primary development environment for both Fusion AI Agent Studio and Oracle APEX 26.1, enabling developers to build enterprise AI agents and low-code applications using local workflows with Git, CLI tools, and AI coding agents. The move reflects a broader shift in how enterprise platforms are extending VS Code's dominance through extensions, command-line integration, and open-source forks.
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VS Code is now the distribution channel for enterprise AI and low-code platforms; if you build developer tools, you're no longer competing with Oracle's IDE—you're extending it or becoming irrelevant inside it. Oracle just bet that controlling the editor matters less than owning the extensions that live in it.
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