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Visual Studio Code is the new kid on the block in text editor circles. It’s raison d’etre is to provide a keyboard focused lightweight editor that has less of the complexity of a full blown IDE, while trying to provide enough of the powerful features that developers love. While it looks to strike that balance between power and flexibility, it provides a robust extension ecosystem for anything that doesn’t come in the box.
VS Code is mainly targeted around web, Node.js, and ASP.net developers. In fact, it is even written in HTML, CSS, SVG, TypeScript and Node.js. Things like IntelliSense (auto-complete suggestions), syntax highlighting, and even a debugger (for the latter two) are provided in the box. Additional languages can of course be provided by installing extensions from the marketplace . There is even version control built in, so you can connect to GitHub and commit, sync and change branches without leaving the editor.
There are however some fairly common misconceptions I’ve seen around VS Code:
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