Visual Studio Code
Free IDE based on the Electron/Atom Framework. Created by Microsoft.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
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What is Visual Studio Code?
VS Code is more than just a code editor, it provides the tools and extensions to compile, debug, compare, refactor, and even manage code repositories all within a highly-customised development environment.
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- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Lightweight
- Built-in terminal emulation
- Autocompletion
- Customizable
- Code completion
- GIT support
- Syntax Highlighting
- Multiple languages
- Support for Themes
- Source code debugging
- IDE
- Multiple cursors
- Night mode/Dark Theme
- Supports Python
- Remote Debugging
- Ruby support
- Lint support
- Support for Javascript
- C support
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Our users have written 46 comments and reviews about Visual Studio Code, and it has gotten 963 likes
- Developed by Microsoft
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.2
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- iliser liked Visual Studio Codeil2 days ago
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Faster then atom.
Fresher then notepad++.
Freer then sublime text.
And more extensible than all three.
Reply written 7 months ago
People claim vscode is a text editor and therefore not an alternative to IntelliJ. I think I'm going crazy.
Text editors: Mousepad Leafpad Do they feature pylint support? Or a debugger? Or git integration? No.
Wikipedia lists vscode as IDE, which is absolutely reasonable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment). And furthermore, why does naming it a "text editor" even matter? It has got IDE features, fine. That makes it an alternative to IntelliJ and vice versa because there are features that can be compared! Anyone who votes those alternatives down is not in their right mind.
Please just stop that nonesense.
I have seen people rate electron apps that do almost nothing at all, yet require a full blown web browser to run, as efficient here, and today it's people putting random tags onto stuff instead of comparing features. What is wrong with everybody.
It is actually NOT open source. Its base is open source, you have to compile it yourself since the binary you can download on the official page was actually MODIFIED and under a proprietary license! It's like the relationship between Chrome and Chromium, except that Google NEVER even tried to call the Chrome "open source", but Microsoft indeed does.
The name for the open source application is actually called "Code - OSS Dev".
Actually, VSCode developers says that "The cool thing about all of this is that you have the choice to use the Visual Studio Code branded product under our license or you can build a version of the tool straight from the vscode repository, under the MIT license.
Here's how it works. When you build from the vscode repository, you can configure the resulting tool by customizing the product.json file. This file controls things like the Gallery endpoints, “Send-a-Smile” endpoints, telemetry endpoints, logos, names, and more.
When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license."
They seems to be light and reversible customizations.
[Edited by dany111, December 18]
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60
Things seem to be more complex. See:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issuecomment-317319063
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#proprietary-debugging-tools
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49159
[Edited by dany111, June 14]
Reply written almost 3 years ago
One of the tenets of the FOSS philosophy is that you can create derivative works from a FOSS product for whatever purpose, including commercial. Now Microsoft has done exactly that: It has created branded binaries from its own FOSS code. And there is a good reason behind that; they need to protect their customers against backspaceware. (The same goes for the popular Google Chrome.)
Reply written 7 months ago
Free and extensible!
It is a high quality free competitor for commercial IDEs.
VS Code is advertised as "Build on open source", but actually includes countless proprietary components. Even though this editor is quite cool, the fact that it's developed primarily by Microsoft is not cool.
And yes, I know about the free distributions of it, but since they rely on the original, they lack these proprietary features. Microsoft, once again, showing their EEE strategy (see Wikipedia).