Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Initial release | April 29, 2015 |
Stable release | 1.92.2[1]
/ 15 August 2024 |
Preview release | 1.93-insiders[2]
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Repository | |
Written in | TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS[3] |
Operating system | Windows 10 or later, macOS 10.15 or later, Linux |
Platform | x86-64, ARM32,[note 1] ARM64 |
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Available in | 15 languages |
List of languages English (US), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Czech[4] | |
Type | Source-code editor |
License | Proprietary freeware[5][6] based on open-source project[7][8][note 2] |
Website | code |
Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code,[10] is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS and web browsers.[11][12] Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded version control with Git. Users can change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions that add functionality.
In the Stack Overflow 2023 Developer Survey, Visual Studio Code was ranked the most popular developer environment tool among 86,544 respondents, with 73.71% reporting that they use it. [13]
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