Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code (by microsoft)
KDevelop
Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP (by KDE)
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| Visual Studio Code | KDevelop | |
|---|---|---|
| 3,136 | - | |
| 171,054 | 536 | |
| 1.0% | 1.1% | |
| 10.0 | 9.8 | |
| 6 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| TypeScript | C++ | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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 2025-05-16.
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Selenium with Python Interview Questions and Answers (2025)
VS Code
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Building Cross-Platform Apps with Flutter
Visual Studio Code (with Flutter extension)
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Build a Chat App
Install Visual Studio Code (VS Code) from: https://code.visualstudio.com
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Build Python Docker Development Environment on Win11 from Scratch
Download VSCode through the following URL https://code.visualstudio.com/
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How to Handle File Uploads with Node.js and Express - Multer Edition
A text editor or lightweight IDE such as Visual Studio Code
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What's Happening in Developer Tools? (OpenAI Just Bought Windsurf for $3B)
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a free code editor that relies on community plugins for support across various languages and frameworks. It also has an AI offering, Copilot, that provides code completion and it just added its own agent. VSCode supports multiple LLMs, but initially, there seemed to be a preference for ChatGPT, in part given its early lead and no doubt influenced by the fact Microsoft was an early investor in it. However, that relationship seems to be fraying.
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Your first MCP Server (quick)
Explore different MCP Clients too! You can continue using ollmcp as we did earlier, or try other clients like Claude Desktop, Visual Studio Code, and more to see how different environments interact with your server.
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Agentic Editing in Zed
All vims and emacses can have undo-tree (as a plugin iirc). Many devs use it.
Vote/read-up here for the feature on Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17455
And here on VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20889
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Understanding the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and using it with Amazon Q Developer CLI
Example : Claude Desktop , Amazon Q , VSCode Agent mode
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An Introduction to TypeScript for JavaScript Developers
Better Tooling – Enhanced autocompletion, refactoring, and navigation in IDEs like VS Code.
KDevelop
Posts with mentions or reviews of KDevelop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning KDevelop yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Visual Studio Code and KDevelop you can also consider the following projects:
community - Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!
Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE
identity-obj-proxy - An identity object using ES6 proxies. Useful for mocking webpack imports like CSS Modules.
Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor
pulsar - A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
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