The best free Code Editor alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio is Visual Studio Code. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio and many of them are free Code Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Code Editor alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio are Eclipse, VSCodium, Apache NetBeans and PyCharm.
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It's maybe not as capable as the real VS. But it's still a great environment and with a couple of extensions it can do a lot of things VS can.