Microsoft’s new code editor, Visual Studio Code is new & shinny. Unlike the traditional Visual Studio, it’s lightweight. Much like Sublime Text.
I’m already using it for PHP development & I’m enjoying it.
Download it here: https://code.visualstudio.com.
P.S.
It’s free and available on all platforms.
Some of us still write code in ordinary notepad…
cries into python soup*
It’s still a little sluggish though (well, as of 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 though so maybe I should be gentle) and needs polish. It’s built on Github’s Electron - the same core that powers Atom which is quite interesting. Microsoft’s embrace of open source technologies in recent years is impressive.
How stable is this thing?
Yes it is! It now seems like they’re trying to outdo every other person. Even on the explainer video for code, I couldn’t help but notice that the person running the demo was using a Mac.
Your post just reminded me about atom & I’m wondering why I’ve not tried my hands on it yet.
Does it support plugins?
What shall seperate me from the love of JetBrains products?
Kamari.
@the_middleman not at the moment but in the works. It’s still in early preview, with weird data collection terms.
Electron’s pretty sweet.
Just built something with it over the weekend. Super easy to get into and use. A few gotchas but also a few pleasant surprises.
Overall … give it a shot!
Having used VS Code for about a full day’s work, the novelty has started to fade small small. I discovered that the support to PHP is still really poor. What it does better than Sublime (which was my preferred editor for PHP) is that it lists and describes all the functions, but it doesn’t do HTML code completion for PHP. I have to type-out all the HTML myself.
But HTML is less work for me, than trying to figure out the best PHP function to use for a particular task. So I’m sticking to it ahead of Sublime - for now. I suppose, when the plugin feature becomes available, many more things would be made easier.
Generally, it’s more usable and friendly to the eye than Sublime. The git support seems amazing, but it doesn’t do it for me. I’m still rather “old-schooly” with git, preferring to use command line above anything.
I should try Electron.