Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight, and extensible code editor created by Microsoft.
What is Visual Studio Code?
Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight, and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.
Visual Studio Code has built-in support for Git source control management and powerful integrations with GitHub, an integrated debugger, and smart code completion with IntelliSense and with AI-driven IntelliCode. With over 30,000 extensions and themes in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace, you can customize the features and the look of Visual Studio Code to fit your needs, preferences, and style.
You can use Visual Studio Code to build any kind of app, for web, desktop, and mobile. Visual Studio Code supports JavaScript and TypeScript natively and offers extensions for coding in languages such as Python, Java, C/C++, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, and many more.
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Visual Studio Code Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Lightweight
- Autocompletion
- Syntax Highlighting
- Git Support
- Support for Themes
- Dark Mode
- Support for MarkDown
- No registration required
- Code Formatting
- Customizable
- Built-in terminal emulation
- Code Completion
- IDE
- Multiple languages
- Supports Python
- Source code debugging
- Multiple Cursors
- Lint support
- Support for Javascript
- Ruby support
- Support for NodeJS
- Remote Debugging
- C support
- Theme Customization
- C++
- C# Scripting
- Auto Update
- Graphical User Interface
- GitHub integration
- Plug-ins
- Specific for 64-Bit
- Support for 64 bit
- Code navigation
- Color coding of code
- Mercurial support
- Objective-c
- Git integration
- PHP IDE
- Embedded debugger
- Run Android Apps on Desktop
- Electron based
- Minimap
Visual Studio Code information
- Developed byMicrosoft
- LicensingProprietary and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.2
- Alternatives185 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 135,410 Stars
- 23,129 Forks
- 7458 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Code Editor
- Text Editor
- Version Control
- node-js
- programming
- Javascript
- ASP.NET
- CSS / Stylesheets
- Bugs
- css3
- terminal-app
Lists containing Visual Studio Code
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mmiforge thinks Eclipse is an alternative to Visual Studio Code
Zipping Upvoted a comment on VSCodium as an alternative to Visual Studio Codeit's free and opensource, and does not track you and still provides you with every single feature of vs code
Faster then atom. Fresher then notepad++. Freer then sublime text.
And more extensible than all three.
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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.
Just because it highlights code syntax does not make it an IDE, neither the fact that you can access git, and as everything Microsoft does not even the GCC compiler works as expected because Microsoft pre defines their proprietary compiler that don't exactly works the same, what Microsoft does, is masking very well the idea that is Open Source Software and universal compatible, but it's not, and definitely won't help you out to configuring the system path, install and update the correct software, an IDE should do all that.
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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 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.)
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absolutely useful
VS Code is a bloated and heavy desktop application since it's made using electron. Although, it has many capabilities and works as a great multi-tool in the toolbox of anyone that works with any kind of code.
Made with electron.
Thorough documentation, runs well even on older systems, huge user-base, tons of extensions.
And free.