Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code (by microsoft)
git
A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)
| Visual Studio Code | git | |
|---|---|---|
| 3,319 | 630 | |
| 186,159 | 9,238 | |
| 0.9% | 0.6% | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| TypeScript | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Visual Studio Code
Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-06-01.
- Scarab Diagnostic Suite Field Test #010: VS Code Input Geometry Boundary
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Agentic Engineering: What Does AI Coding Really Cost?
For IDE-heavy teams, BYOK (bring your own key) can be interesting, no matter whether you live in WebStorm or VS Code. On the JetBrains side, the JetBrains AI plans and Junie BYOK docs allow it, and most VS Code AI extensions offer the same idea: keep the IDE, connect provider keys, pay the provider.
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AI Doesn't Have ROI
One can (maybe, probably) disable copilot completely in vscode: chat.disableAIFeatures
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/309947
I am considering pinning whatever the earliest version in which this setting was introduced. I can't think of a single feature VSCode has implemented in the last three years that I couldn't go without. The binary for 121 is like 50% larger than 120.
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Best Markdown Editors for Developers
Option 1: Raw editing in IDE. You open the .md file in VS Code or whatever you use. Syntax highlighting shows you the structure. Maybe you toggle a preview pane. This works for quick edits but becomes painful for anything involving tables, diagrams, or complex formatting.
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Mix and Match: Running Kiro on Google Cloud Shell
The Google Cloud Shell- available on every Google Cloud project — comes with a built-in code editor that allows you to browse file directories, view and edit files, with continued access to the Cloud Shell. The Cloud Shell Editor is available by default with every Cloud Shell instance, and is based on Code OSS.
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Document Generation for Developers: Security, Compliance, and Build-vs-Buy Decisions for the Template-Plus-Data Pipeline
You'll need Python 3.8+ and pip for the quickstart, with venv recommended for isolation. Install the requests library for HTTP calls. VS Code with the Python extension works well as an editor, though PyCharm or Sublime Text work equally well. You'll also need a free Foxit developer account.
- VSCode fires up screen recording
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Google Antigravity 1.0 to 2.0/IDE Quick Migration Guide
Now here's the key point: Antigravity 2.0 is a huge departure from 1.0 in the sense that it is functionally no longer based on Microsoft's VS Code. That means a huge majority of all the personalizations from 1.0 will not carry over to 2.0.
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VS Code Now Credits Copilot on Every Commit by Default
There's a one-line pull request open against microsoft/vscode. It changes the default value of a setting called git.addAICoAuthor from "off" to "all". The PR is titled, with no embellishment, "Enabling ai co author by default." It was opened on April 15, 2026 by cwebster-99, a member of the VS Code team. By the time the HN thread on the PR hit 1,239 points and 646 comments in early May, the practical effect was already shipping: every commit you make in VS Code, regardless of whether you wrote the code yourself or had Copilot write it, gets a Co-authored-by: Copilot trailer in the commit message.
- VSCode Feature Request: Permissions, Sandboxing and Update Management (2018)
git
Posts with mentions or reviews of git.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-06-02.
- Coreutils for Windows
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Toward a more POSIX-Friendly PowerShell experience
git – If this isn't already installed, what are you even doing?
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The Complete Git & GitHub Developer Guide
Download from gitforwindows.org
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My Journey at LuxDevHQ: Version Control (The Basics)
Visit here and download the latest version of Git for Windows which includes a command line interface (CLI) within which one can run Git commands (known as Git Bash).
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Clone MedTalk: HIPAA-Ready Video and Chat Consultations in Flutter
Use Git for Windows to manage Flutter versions and your source code versioning.
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How to Set Up Your Git Workspace on a PC
Download Git Bash. This is a tool developers use to write Git commands on a PC. I use this on my computer. Just go to gitforwindows.org and click the download button to start downloading the file.
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AltSchool Of Engineering Tinyuka’24 Month 1 Week 2
Go to the Git for Windows website.
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Linux as co-operative Windows process
At work when I work on Windows (currently stuck using Mac for the first time in my career at work), but on Windows I would use https://gitforwindows.org/ which also uses msys2 and that is a very popularly supported free product using msys2 on Windows. If you ever forget the URL, search for "git bash for windows".
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Azure DevOps: Version Control Using Git and VS Code
Git installed and configured on your machine. For Windows, For Mac
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Streamline Your Smart Contract Development with Foundry
How to install?? Before going further make sure you have installed GIT BASH because these commands will not work on windows terminal. Before installing foundry we need to install latest version of the rust. To install rust run below command in your bash terminal
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Visual Studio Code and git you can also consider the following projects:
community - Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP
CPython - The Python programming language
Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows