Reasons to Code : VSCode

BASARAT
1 min readFeb 18, 2016

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This is just a fan post of why I think VS Code can make a great platform to develop packages for.

Uses Monaco

The Monaco editor is a thing of beauty. There are other great OSS web based editors out there. But there is only so much were a non day job financed OSS developer can support code that other OSS developers write. A recent example is VSCodes ligature font support that is absent in others.

Monaco Extensions

Having a great list of extensions written by devs at Microsoft and having this list grow over time is very encouraging.

Split View

Always good to have, especially for large files.

Diff View

Nice!

Debugger

Only recent OSS editor that gives this workflow the love it deserves

Tooltips

Tooltips that show both the error and the type information. Sign me up.

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