Visual Studio Code 1.83.1

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor, available for Windows Mac and Linux OS. It’s a development environment for viewing, editing, building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. It’s an alternative and competitor to Atom, and Sublime Text text editors.

Like many other code editors, VS Code adopts a common user interface and layout of an explorer on the left, showing all the files and folders you have access to, and an editor on the right, showing the content of the files you have opened.

Visual Studio Code edition comes with built-in support for hundreds of programming languages: JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity). It also includes great tooling for web technologies such as JSX/React, HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, and JSON.

Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, a framework which is used to deploy Node.js applications for the desktop running on the Blink layout engine. Although it uses the Electron framework, the software does not use Atom and instead employs the same editor component (codenamed “Monaco”) used in Visual Studio Team Services (formerly called Visual Studio Online).

What is the difference between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community?

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor mainly utilized for debugging and experimenting. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs (integrated development environment) such as Visual Studio IDE. In short, Visual Studio Code is Visual Studio without the Visual, mainly used for debugging and experimenting or creating small projects. Therefore, it’s less heavy and will work on lower-end PCs.

VS Code is free for private or commercial use. It’s require .Net Framework 4.5.2 or above to function properly.

Key Features:

• Streamlined Debugging
• Simple user interface
• Robust and extensible architecture
• Intelligent Code Completion
• Code Navigation and Refactoring
• In-Product Source Control
• Extensible and customizable.
• Git commands built-in
• Open Source