Visual Studio Code Alternatives

Visual Studio Code reviews and mentions

• Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code: An In-depth Comparison
  6 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2024

  Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (VS Code) are two very popular and different software development tools developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio is a popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) among professional software developers while Visual Studio Code is the most popular code editor in the field of software development.

• Developing Inside a Container
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jul 2024

  Interesting. The date at the bottom of the article shows 06/05/2024, which is this one? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/main/docs/devc... renamed from your link in 2022.

  All of this to say, I wish articles were upfront on original publication date.

• Building a Full-Stack Web Application with Free Resources
  3 projects | dev.to | 10 Jun 2024

  Visual Studio Code Docs

• Fedora Atomic Desktops
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024

  I'm using Silverblue 39 for about 2 month coming from NixOS Unstable. It's working very well for me. I have some packages layered like Nvidia and fish shell and https://github.com/CheariX/silverblue-akmods-keys for AKMODS modules work with secure boot. Things like neovim, pyright, helix, starship, LSPs and CLI applications I install with brew (brew.sh). For desktop things I use Flatpak.

  I had a problem with some Flatpak applications (like Steam and Discord) and brew because brew puts its folder in the $PATH before the default ones (/usr/bin ...) and those Flatpak applications tried to use SSL keys from brew instead of the system ones. I just changed the order of the $PATH to make brew bin path to be after ther system ones.

  For VSCode I'm not using the Flatpak I'm using the tarball one I just extract in ~/applications and symlink the code binary in the ~/.local/bin. It's working well, I don't have problem with VSCode not executing LSPs and lint things. The only problem is VSCode from tarball cannot updates itself, so I need to download the newer version and extract to ~/applications. There is this VSCode CLI version (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=linux64cli) but I was not able to make it use the wayland backend.

• Introduction to VS Code
  3 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024

  Explore the official VS Code documentation on the Visual Studio Code website for in-depth guides, tutorials, and reference materials.

• Brand new to vscode. How do you export results into a CSV?
  1 project | /r/vscode | 11 Dec 2023
• Cognitive Load and Your Development Environment
  1 project | dev.to | 17 Oct 2023

  It's a lot, but the VS Code docs have thought about Extraneous Cognitive Load and created written guides, video guides, reference docs and more!

• Microsoft has announced the retirement of Visual Studio for Mac. "Visual Studio for Mac will no longer be supported starting August 31, 2024." | And in May 2023 Unity announced it "has fully deprecated its support for VSCode"
  1 project | /r/Unity3D | 10 Sep 2023

  VSCode has a long history of not working well with Unity, so they deprecated it.

• What’s the best resource to learn VSC?
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 12 Jul 2023
• Can you recommend me an Open Source C++ IDE that can be used for game development and commercial projects?
  1 project | /r/GameDevelopment | 9 Jul 2023

  > Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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