Warnings and errors are displayed on a separate page and you can click to jump to the corresponding line of code. Command Palette makes opening files and searching solution really easy.For more information on debugging Python code, see here.You can step through code, inspect variables, view call stacks for multiple threads etc. Debugging works well, even though startup times can be fairly high (~40 seconds with gdb on Linux, much lower on Windows).Built-in side-by-side view, local commit and even extensions for history and blame view. VS Code is very responsive and can handle even big code bases like Chromium. Editing code works well especially when you get used to the keyboard shortcuts.

The only commonality with Visual Studio is that both are from Microsoft. The two are completely separate products. It is NOT a full-fledged IDE like Visual Studio.

For many languages like C++, Python, Go, Java, it works without too much setup. It has built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and a rich extension ecosystem that adds intellisense, debugging, syntax highlighting etc. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free, open source, lightweight and powerful code editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, based on Electron/Chromium.

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