M1 Mac owners will see better performance and battery life when using the updated Visual Studio Code.

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What you need to know

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code now supports Apple new silicon.
• The support for Apple's Silicon means that the app doesn't have to run through emulation.
• As a result, the app should perform better and use less power.

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code now officially supports Apple's new silicon. The update brings improved performance and better battery life when using the app because it no longer has to run through emulation.

The update brings Visual Studio Code to version 1.54. The post announcing the update is titled 'February 2021,' but the update actually came out yesterday (via iMore).

With support for Apple's new silicon, owners of the M1 versions of the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini will see the benefits of a native app. Those are three of the best Macs you can buy, and future Mac devices will also run on Apple's silicon.

Microsoft said in its post announcing the update:

We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this iteration. Users on Macs with M1 chips can now use VS Code without emulation with Rosetta and will notice better performance and longer battery life when running VS Code. Thanks to the community for self-hosting with the Insiders build and reporting issues early in the iteration.

The default download of VS Code for macOS is now a Universal build that runs natively on all Macs. On the Downloads page, you can find more links to architecture-specific builds for Intel or Apple Silicon, which are smaller downloads compared to the Universal package.

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The update is a universal one, which means that there is one version of the app that will work on Macs no matter what type of chip they run.

In addition to adding support for Apple's new silicon, the update brings improvements to Timeline view, improvements to keyboard navigation for toolbars and tabs, and several other changes.

Let's answer some questions:

• Why are you writing this?
  Because some stuff doesn't 'just work' when restoring from an old backup. I was gifted an M1 Mac Mini (thanks, girlfriend!) and tried to set it up with a backup from my Macbook Air. Vcds 11.11 download. While some things worked, other things went horribly wrong. And going through the process of resetting an M1 Mac product is a pain¹in the²ass³, so I'm attempting to save you the headache.

• But I restored from a backup and mine works fine!
  Great! Mine didn't.

• Okay, so what do you recommend?
  Start from scratch. Yeah, I know. It's not fun. But it doesn't have to be entirely terrible!

• Enable Settings Sync in Visual Studio Code and sync your settings from your current machine
• Save your .zshrc in a Github Gist or something of the sort.

Once you've got your settings from VS Code on your existing machine synced up, install VS Code on your new machine, enable Settings Sync, and..sync your settings. Easy. All of your extensions will get installed, your settings will be synced, and you'll be set. If you were using a custom font (Fira Code, Dank.sh, Monoid, whatever floats your boat) go and install that. Done.

UPDATE: Visual Studio Code Insiders just released a version compatible with M1 Macs! Link: VS Code ARM64

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Once you install iTerm 2, you'll probably want to install Homebrew, Oh My ZSH!, NVM and whatever else. Before doing anything, go to your Applications folder, right-click on iTerm, click 'Get Info', and check the 'Open using Rosetta' option.

Before I did this, I was getting a bunch of undecipherable errors from various command line tools because (presumably) they have compatibility issues with the M1 chip. There are alternative solutions, but I found this to be the easiest to implement and the most out-of-sight-out-of-mind solution. Check the option and don't worry about it. From there you should be able to install all your shell integrations and command line tools with no problem. I was able to install Homebrew and some formulas, NVM, Python 3, and Mac CLI with no issues.

Create or update your .zshrc file with your existing configuration which you should have uploaded to a Github Gist, and you're set.

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Or. At least I was set. 😅 Good luck!