Microsoft is indeed targeting Visual Studio Code beyond individual developers and enterprises. Visual Studio Code isn’t similar to the traditional Visual Studio package as it uses Web technology Chromium and works with extensions for Node.js, Go, C++, PHP and Python. And we’ve pushed hard on getting the best performance we can out of the editing experience,” Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code team writes in a blog post. We have worked with the community to further improve stability, fixing hundreds of bugs. “Getting to ‘1.0’ over the last few months has been about more than features. The new version also brings stability improvements and bug fixes. The year-long journey of Microsoft’s Visual Studio CodeĪlthough the initial build of Visual Studio Code was designed for developments on JavaScript and TypeScript, it can now handle technologies like C++, Go, Python, PHP and Reactive Native among others. Moreover, there are over half a million developers who actively use the web-based code editor each month. Microsoft claims that since the release of its public preview in May last year, Visual Studio Code has been installed by more than two million developers. These are that tweaks that would encourage more developers to consider Code for their developments. Additionally, there is accessible navigation for visually impaired developers. It comes in nine different languages and features like full keyboard navigation and support for screen reading.

Unlike its previous versions, Visual Studio Code 1.0 is touted to be “fully localisable”.

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