Visual Studio Code
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Free and extensible code editor with built-in Git support, smart IntelliSense, integrated debugger, 30,000+ extensions, works offline, supports markdown and syntax highlighting for numerous languages.
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Faster then atom. Fresher then notepad++. Freer then sublime text.
And more extensible than all three.
Fast, intuitive, extensible
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]
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.)
I use VS Code daily for Laravel and Next.js projects. It's fast, the extension ecosystem is huge, and the built-in terminal and Git integration mean I rarely need to leave the editor. It can get heavy with too many extensions installed, but for free it's hard to beat.
I love visual studio code.
Hard to argue with the default. The extension marketplace is the real moat, even as the app drifts further from lightweight editor with every release.
Great overall editor with an incredible library of extensions. It can get a bit resource-heavy with too many plugins, but it's still my primary go-to.
Fast, free, tons of extensions. My daily editor.