Visual Studio Code is an IDE tool built by Microsoft that runs on multiple platforms, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides support for numerous programming languages, and it can be used to build modern apps for web and cloud.
Installation
Visual Studio Code is provided as a regular binary blog, inside a .zip archive. It doesn't need any kind of installation, and it should run out of the box without any major issues. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, and users just need to decompress the archive and run the binary file. The application should start without any issues since all the dependencies are already integrated.
It's quite possible that some distro already have this tool from Microsoft in the official reposs, so you might want to check there first.
Features
The number of programming languages are quite impressive and they include: Batch, C++, Clojure, Coffee Script, DockerFile, F#, Go, Jade, Java, HandleBars, Ini, Lua, Makefile, Markdown, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python, R, Razor, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Visual Basic, XML, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Less, Sass, C#, and TypeScript. It's quite possible that more will be added in the future.
The developers also provided a comprehensive tutorial on the official website on how to deal with each of these languages and they offer some hints for each of them. It's not all that different from what's already available out there, but it's the first one from Microsoft aimed at Linux users.
Usage
Using it is extremely easy. It's possible to start projects from scratch or to import projects started in other places, like Git for example. Visual Studio Code does come with git support, and you can just import a repository from there.
The application has debugging and version control functions, as you would expect, and Microsoft says that these are the strengths of the application.
Conclusion
Visual Studio Code is a very powerful tool and it's easy to see why, but it's a your project, and there is still a lot left to implement. The application is not yet stable, and more features are bound to land soon.
What is new in this release:
- Several updates to how we handle files, including file and folder filtering in the explorer, opening files via the command line at a specific line number, re-using an existing instance when you open multiple files, ability to control the size of the working files list.
- Improved editor options that include support for removing trailing whitespace, improved search patterns with include/exclude filters.
- Significant JavaScript updates including ES6 support, jsconfig.json, improved /// reference management, additional workspace settings
- Git enhancements, including an integrated credential prompt, multi-line commit message support and improved control over auto-fetch
- User-defined snippets support, and more built in snippets for common languages, i.e., Dockerfiles, Python, and Rust.
- Debugger enhancements including watch expressions, and improved Node.js breakpoint and source map support.
- Other Stuff: Proxy support, auto-update enabled for Mac and Windows, notable bug fixes
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