Visual Studio Codespaces Is Moving To Github May 2026

GitHub Codespaces initially defaults to the light GitHub theme, whereas the original service used the VS Code "Dark+" default.

The original Azure offering allowed for more granular manual control over instance sizes at creation, a feature that was later streamlined in the GitHub implementation . How to Migrate Code Visual Studio Codespaces is moving to GitHub

The service became read-only; users could no longer create new plans or codespaces. GitHub Codespaces initially defaults to the light GitHub

Because environments were not automatically transferred, developers had to manually move their work: Visual Studio Codespaces is moving to GitHub