Visual Studio Code

Thomas Yeun Visual Studio Code VS Code Editor

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring. It is also customizable, so users can change the editor’s theme, keyboard shortcuts, and preferences. It is free and open-source, although the official download is under a proprietary license.

Visual Studio Code is based on Electron, a framework which is used to deploy Node.js applications for the desktop running on the Blink layout engine. Although it uses the Electron framework, the software does not use Atom and instead employs the same editor component (codenamed “Monaco”) used in Visual Studio Team Services (formerly called Visual Studio Online).

Language	Snippets	Syntax highlighting	Brace matching	Code folding
C and C++	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
C#	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clojure	No	Yes	Yes	No
CoffeeScript	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CSS	No	Yes	Yes	No
Dockerfile	No	Yes	Yes	No
F#	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Go	No	Yes	Yes	No
Groovy	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Handlebars	No	Yes	Yes	No
HLSL	No	Yes	Yes	No
HTML/HTML5	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
INI file	No	Yes	Yes	No
Java	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JavaScript	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
JSON	No	Yes	Yes	No
LESS	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Log file	No	Yes	No	No
Lua	No	Yes	Yes	No
Makefile	No	Yes	Yes	No
Markdown	Yes	Yes	No	No
Objective-C	No	Yes	Yes	No
Perl	No	Yes	Yes	No
PHP	No	Yes	Yes	No
Powershell	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pug JS	No	Yes	Yes	No
Python	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
R	No	Yes	Yes	No
Razor	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ruby	No	Yes	Yes	No
Rust	No	Yes	Yes	No
SCSS	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shaderlab	No	Yes	Yes	No
Shell script	No	Yes	Yes	No
SQL	No	Yes	Yes	No
Swift	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
TypeScript	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visual Basic	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WASM	-	-	-	-
Windows batch file	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
XML	No	Yes	Yes	No
YAML	No	Yes	Yes	No

Visual Studio Code

Thomas Yeun

Machine Automation and AOI specialist (Hardware and Software)