Imagine platform-neutral, language-agnostic tools for writing code. Awesome, yes, but using tools like Visual Studio Code to compose your programmatic masterpiece will require a bit of rethinking.

Microsoft's text editor 'Visual Studio Code' has an extension marketplace, where users can easily install various extensions. A Reddit post pointed out that only Microsoft extensions can use special ...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft’s cross-platform text editor for developers, hit version 1.0 today after about a year in beta. The company says more than 500,000 developers now actively use ...

Microsoft's open source development tool starts as an editor, but can become any kind of IDE—and be extended for most any language—on Mac, Linux, or Windows. If there’s any one tool a software ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code at the Build Developer Conference 2015, making it the company’s first true cross-platform free code editor. As a direct competition to text and code editors such ...

First previewed at last year's Build developer conference, the free Visual Studio Code editor has hit version 1.0 with the help of open source community developers, Microsoft announced today. With its ...

TextEdit, the default text editor on the Mac, is great for file creation and editing. However, it isn’t suitable for writing or reviewing code, owing to a lack of functionality. IMAGE: Joan Gamell ...