What exactly is Visual Studio Code?

Question

Recently I\'ve read about Microsoft Visual Studio Code. I work primarily with C and C++ languages on GNU/Linux. My question is whether Visual Studio Code is just a simple ed

Answer 1

VS Code is a editor provided by Microsoft. Developers can code in their favorite language using VS code. You can go through the below 30 minutes youtube video which explains in 10 simple steps how to code using VS code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ9CiRlRPKs

Answer 2

Visual Studio Code is free, cross platform, super fast and lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and OS X. Since a lot of developers use windows as their development environment, but there are also lots of developers using Linux and Mac. So, Visual studio code is for them. Though, you can also use it on windows. Since ASP.NET 5 is also cross platform as having a code editor on linux and mac makes sense. Recently ASP.NET 5 RC1 was released and please give a read to What’s new in ASP.NET 5 RC1 and RC2 and if you are new to ASP.NET 5 then read Quick summary of what’s changed in ASP.NET 5. and ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0

Visual studio code is based on Electron framework, which is used to build cross platform desktop application using web technologies.

Answer 3

Visual Studio Code is just an editor, which features their intellisense thingy and some git and debugger integration.

EDIT: more info here: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs