We all are familiar with Visual Studio. We have community edition of Visual Studio as well. But Visual Studio is more preferable for developing complex software. For our day-to-day scripting, we need something lightweight.
Most of our scripting needs are fulfilled by Powershell ISE. But Powershell ISE is limited to certain features, I accept that it has improved alot but still I feel it slower and little blur(ish) fonts makes me difficult to connect with it. It is my personal comment, but if you have also felt the same, do let me know. I might be wrong.
Coming to the point why I am writing today's post. So, today we will talk about Visual Studio Code. I have been using it since it was released. Believe me, this is great free tool provided by Microsoft. I love the interface, themes and great capability to customise.
Below are the few bullet points that I found great about Visual Studio Code:
- You need not install it, download a zip file from Microsoft.
- Available in Linux, Mac and Windows.
- Several themes available. Dark to light to many experimental that suit your taste of colors.
- Capability to Debug. The major element that is missing in Notepad+.
- Feature to edit any language. Sometimes we need to write script that also include Python, Java or any other language. No issues, Visual Studio Code is capable to edit a huge list of languages.
- Timely upgrades from Microsoft.
Try downloading from below and let me know how you feel.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Cheers!
Most of our scripting needs are fulfilled by Powershell ISE. But Powershell ISE is limited to certain features, I accept that it has improved alot but still I feel it slower and little blur(ish) fonts makes me difficult to connect with it. It is my personal comment, but if you have also felt the same, do let me know. I might be wrong.
Coming to the point why I am writing today's post. So, today we will talk about Visual Studio Code. I have been using it since it was released. Believe me, this is great free tool provided by Microsoft. I love the interface, themes and great capability to customise.
Below are the few bullet points that I found great about Visual Studio Code:
- You need not install it, download a zip file from Microsoft.
- Available in Linux, Mac and Windows.
- Several themes available. Dark to light to many experimental that suit your taste of colors.
- Capability to Debug. The major element that is missing in Notepad+.
- Feature to edit any language. Sometimes we need to write script that also include Python, Java or any other language. No issues, Visual Studio Code is capable to edit a huge list of languages.
- Timely upgrades from Microsoft.
Try downloading from below and let me know how you feel.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Cheers!
