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Visual Studio Code as a development environment

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and powerful cross-platform development environment for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

You can use a wide range of programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js as well as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go, and the .NET Core and Unity runtimes via language and runtime extensions.

It comes with a streamlined, clean, and very efficient user interface. There is a file and folder explorer on the left and a source code editor on the right, showing the contents of files you have opened and are currently working on:

The user interface consists of the following ...

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