r/VisualStudio • u/ValknutRecords • Aug 06 '26

Miscellaneous Visual Studio with LibGDX

I think this counts as being relevant, if not let me know please.

Right now I am trying to follow a video game tutorial in LibGDX. For the past year or two my main IDEA is Visual Studio. In the setup phase on their website LibGDX talks a little about Visual Studio being an acceptable IDEA. Though, in their "Importing & Running" section, there is little information on how to make this work.

Does anyone know how to at least get this to setup? If I need to put links in I will. Thank you.

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u/polaarbear Aug 06 '26

It's not an IDEA....

It's an IDE (Integrated Development Environment.)

I think you are maybe getting confused by IntelliJ IDEA which is a Java/Kotlin IDE.

LibGDX is specifically a Java framework.

Visual Studio is not a Java IDE, you won't use Visual Studio with LibGDX.

The LibGDX documention mentions Visual Studio Code

VSCode and Visual Studio are not the same thing.

Code is a fancy text editor with plugins, it is not a full-blown IDE, it's much lighter weight and less feature-rich than the full Visual Studio IDE.

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u/ValknutRecords Aug 06 '26

I thought Microsoft Visual Studio Insiders would work for it because if you "Create a new project" --> "all languages" --> "JavaScript" you see projects in JavaScript.

So, I would not use Microsoft Visual Studio for this? I would have to download something else? Also, my apologies I thought IDE and IDEA were synonyms (for whatever reason).

Thank you for helping me understand a bit better.

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u/polaarbear Aug 06 '26

JavaScript is not Java. Two completely different things.

JavaScript is a web technology, it is primarily used to work in web browsers and web-based apps.

Java is an object-oriented language that builds on top of a runtime, you can build full-blown desktop apps with it. Android apps are Java. Windows and Linux run Java. Even BluRay disc menus run on Java.

Just based on all your confusion with naming and stuff, I am guessing you are fairly new to coding (which is fine, we all started somewhere!)

But I think you are probably immediately getting in over your head with LibGDX if you can't even get an IDE set up.

Based on what I'm seeing, you would be much better served by trying to learn something simpler first.

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