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Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity). Begin your journey with VS Code with these introductory videos.

License: MIT License

Written in: Electron Framework

Developer(s): Microsoft

Operating system: Windows, Linux and macOS.

Stable release: 1.60.1 14 September 2021

Features

VS Code supports a wide array of programming languages from Java, C++, and Python to CSS, Go, and Dockerfile. Moreover, VS Code allows you to add on and even creating new extensions including code linters, debuggers, and cloud and web development support. The VS Code user interface allows for a lot of interaction compared to other text editors. To simplify user experience, VS Code is divided into five main regions:

  • The activity bar
  • The side bar
  • Editor groups
  • The panel
  • The status bar The image below shows how these regions are displayed:

Advantages of VS code

There are many advantages over any other IDE; they are as follow:

    1. Cross-platform support :
      - Windows
      - Linux
      - Mac
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    1. Light-weight
    1. Robust Architecture
    1. Intelli-Sense
    1. Freeware: Free of Cost- probably the best feature of all for all the programmers out there, even more for the organizations.
    1. Many users will use it or might have used it for desktop applications only, but it also provides great tool support for Web Technologies like; HTML, CSS, JSON.

There are a few things that one can find a bit odd compared with so many features. It mainly helps the front-end developers as compared with the back-end developers. But as per some user’s opinions, it is equally helpful. It supports most of the languages used by most of the programmers, but other languages might have to download, or extensions may have to be used for them. Along with this common zoom-in, zoom-out brightness, theme selection features too are made available.

Conclusion

With advancements in technology day-by-day, Visual Studio Code is going to play a pivotal role in the development of software. With its ever-evolving features and soon-to-be-added new settings, which will enable users to work with it from anywhere,it is certainly “THE THING” to keep one ahead of everyone in this ever-increasing IT market.