Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's lightweight, cross-platform, open source code editor with IDE-like features. Since being introduced in 2015, it has been continually gaining in popularity, ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide.

Visual Studio Code has millions of active users, and not just at Microsoft. Many VS Code users are, for example, developers at Google or Facebook.