
Intuitive keyboard shortcuts, easy customization and community-contributed keyboard shortcut mappings let you navigate your code with ease.įor serious coding, you’ll often benefit from tools with more code understanding than just blocks of text. With support for hundreds of languages, VS Code helps you be instantly productive with syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, box-selection, snippets, and more. Visual Studio Code features a lightning fast source code editor, perfect for day-to-day use. Together, these features allow VS Code to provide an extremely fast workflow for developers. Though every editor has its unique strengths, VS Code is arguably the most popular because it’s more customisable, more regularly updated, and boasts a more diverse ecosystem of extensions than its competitors. In the last two years, evidence from Google’s search trends would indicate that interest in VS Code (in Blue, below) has overtaken that of all other major text editors.

Since its release in 2015, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has quickly established itself as the most popular code editor out there.
