To arrive at this 1.0 release-the most recent update was previously a March Insiders Release–Microsoft says it has worked with the community to improve performance and stability and fix hundreds of bugs. It’s also fully localizable, and ships in 9 different languages, including French, German, Japanese, and Chinese. It also supports a wide variety of programming languages-including JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, C#, HTML/CSS, and many others-and can be improved with over 1000 extensions. It provides many core editing features from the full versions of Visual Studio-like IntelliSense, Debugging, Peek, and Code Navigation-with a more streamlined user interface.

Visual Studio Code is freelyPerformance, stability, accessibility, and compatibility available for Windows 7, 8, and 10, Mac OS X Yosemite and El Capitan, and, astonishingly, Linux (in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, no less). “Today, we’re excited to report that more than 500,000 developers actively use VS Code each month.” “Since our initial launch one year ago, 2 million developers have installed VS Code,” the Visual Studio Code team revealed. Announced in pre-release form alongside Visual Studio 2015 last summer, Visual Studio Code-a lightweight, cross-platform code editor-is now available in 1.0 form, Microsoft says.

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