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Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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As an Atom user that's only dabbled with VS Code when it was announced, what are its advantages? Last time I tried Code it seemed like a fork of Atom with Microsoft branding.

There's other features, but the biggest for me is if you're writing TypeScript or C# you get first-class visual debugging support. Also the live Markdown Preview (cmd-shift-v) is pretty awesome.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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As an Atom user that's only dabbled with VS Code when it was announced, what are its advantages? Last time I tried Code it seemed like a fork of Atom with Microsoft branding.

I tried it out but too but Atom pulled me back because of its plugins and linters

VSCode is extensible now -- they are called extensions.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/#VSCode

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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As an Atom user that's only dabbled with VS Code when it was announced, what are its advantages? Last time I tried Code it seemed like a fork of Atom with Microsoft branding.

One of the biggest advantages that I know of is that VSC has a very good NodeJS debugger for Javascript and Typescript[1]. Having the debugger integrated into the editor is huge improvement over Node Inspector. Last time I tried Atom's debuggers, they were not very good.

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/debugging

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