Visual Studio Code is one of the most customizable Text Editors on the market. Visual Studio Code – Debug Console Customizable You can accelerate editing, compiling, and debugging by adding breakpoints (and watchers) thanks to its incredible built-in debugger available to use from within the editor.Īnd although you will need to install an extension to debug other runtimes like C++ and Python, anything transpiled to JavaScript is supported by default. Visual code has Intelligent Code Completion feature which supports completions for variables, methods, and imported modules and enables you to write smarter code with an efficient syntax highlighter which supports Batch, C++, Clojure, CoffeeScript, DockerFile, Elixir, F#, Go, Pug template language, Java, HandleBars, Ini, Lua, Makefile, Objective-C, Perl, PowerShell, Python, R, Razor, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Visual Basic, and XML straight out of the box. To highlight a few of the main features Microsoft’s open-source Text Editor: IntelliSense It also seems to have individually won the hearts of young developers who are recently joining the coding community and are in search for the ideal Text Editor, or IDE. Visual Studio Code has gone only upwards in user rating since its first release in April 2015 thanks to its various features which include numerous plugins, keyboard shortcuts, support for code refactoring, debugging, and Git integration, to name a few.

Its source code (available on GitHub) is a port of the Redmond Giant’s Visual Studio Online Editor (codenamed “ Monaco“) and repackaged for desktop thanks to the power of Electron framework. Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform open-source Text Editor developed by Microsoft that comes with built-in support for TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js right out of the box.

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