What is Visual Studio Code?
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What is Visual Studio Code?
- Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free code editor made by Microsoft. It was initially released in 2015.
- It’s used by many types of coders, including web developers.
- It works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Why is VS Code so popular?
- It’s a good code editor that’s updated frequently with new features.
- There are many extensions that let you add more features or customize how it works.
- It’s free.
- It integrates with Git to let you track changes to your code.
- Microsoft also owns GitHub (where people store their projects in Git repositories), so VS Code nicely integrates with GitHub.
What makes VS Code unique?
- VS Code is built with Electron, which enables cross-platform desktop apps to be built with web tech (JavaScript, HTML, & CSS).
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That means VS Code can work in a web browser.
For example on any GitHub repository you can hit the period (.) key and you will start editing with a web version of VS Code without downloading or installing anything!
What about other code editors?
- VS Code is currently the most popular code editor and is dominating the industry, but developers have (and still do) use other code editors.
- TextMate, Dreamweaver, Brackets, and others have seen their popularity grow and then shrink. Some are no longer being developed (like Atom, which was originally developed by GitHub before Microsoft purchased GitHub).
- Sublime Text was the most popular prior VS Code. It’s good, is still being developed, and some developers use it.
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What is Visual Studio Code?
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