From the course: Learning Visual Studio Code (2017)

A case for VS code - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: Learning Visual Studio Code (2017)

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A case for VS code

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- [Instructor] There's many reasons one might choose Visual Studio Code as a source code editor, but here are a few of my favorite reasons. One is that it's cross-platform. Not only could you use it on Windows, but you could also use it on OSX, and Linux. Another is that it is a very fast code editor. It's really quick to launch and is not very bloated at all. It also has a really great debugger, a quite advanced one that you normally would find on advanced IDE's, and that's one of the reasons why I mentioned that it hits that sweet spot between being a nice editor and a great IDE. But it's referred to as code source editor because it is still lightweight and not bloated at all. But yet, it has great advanced features, such as a debugger. Another good feature that it has is its IntelliSense, which is just as effective as using IDE like Visual Studio Code. And you're also able to refact the code fairly easily. But before we go in and demonstrate some of these features, let's go ahead and talk about how to set things up in our environment.

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