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What exactly is Visual Studio Code?

Recently I've read about Microsoft Visual Studio Code. I work primarily with C and C++ languages on GNU/Linux. My question is whether Visual Studio Code is just a simple editor which uses whatever compiler exist in the platform, gcc in my case, as a background compiler or does it come with its own VS compiler?

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David Martínez Avatar asked Apr 29 '15 20:04

David Martínez


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Visual Studio Code is just an editor, which features their intellisense thingy and some git and debugger integration.

EDIT: more info here: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs

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rfreytag Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 23:10

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