Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a free and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
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Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about GitHub Copilot
GitHub launches a free version of its AI assistant GitHub Copilot for VS Code usersGitHub has just launched a free version of its GitHub Copilot AI-powered code completion tool, now ...
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Visual Studio Code 1.96 brings Overtype mode, JS/TS auto imports, and enhanced debuggingMicrosoft has released the November 2024 update for Visual Studio Code, version 1.96, featuring a r...
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Microsoft launches GitHub Copilot for Azure to manage your Azure infra directly in VS CodeChris Harris, Product Manager for Visual Studio Code, has announced the preview release of GitHub C...
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- stefanbozovic reviewed Visual Studio Code
ver since Visual Studio Code came to the web, I’ve noticed a surge of other web editors essentially becoming VS Code wrappers. Honestly, I think that’s a good thing, especially if it means everyone can focus on building AI-powered extensions for a single IDE. It’s efficient, creates a unified experience, and makes innovation more accessible to developers.
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What is Visual Studio Code?
Visual Studio Code information
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- 7930 Open Issues
- Updated Mar 14, 2024
Comments and Reviews
Faster then atom. Fresher then notepad++. Freer then sublime text.
And more extensible than all three.
Reply written Apr 12, 2021
Fast, intuitive, extensible
Reply written Apr 5, 2023
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 Dec 18, 2018
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 Apr 12, 2021
ver since Visual Studio Code came to the web, I’ve noticed a surge of other web editors essentially becoming VS Code wrappers. Honestly, I think that’s a good thing, especially if it means everyone can focus on building AI-powered extensions for a single IDE. It’s efficient, creates a unified experience, and makes innovation more accessible to developers.
Good ide for most of the programming languages
It can do everything... in some way. There are plugins and extensions for every mayor language, feature or design wanted.
BUT that also makes it slow and overly messy over time. It tries to do everything but it doesn't excel in anything special. So for many languages and use cases, other IDEs might be better suited.
lightweight yet powerful
Still by far my favorite code editor to this day. I love the customization that it offers in terms of how you can make it look and juts how well it works when I'm building out websites.