Of course, Visual Studio Code isn’t the only code editor. There’s GitHub’s Atom, which has more than 1 million monthly active users , but it’s also older than Visual Studio Code.

Where to download Visual Studio Code. To download the editor for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, go to Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio website. What’s new in Visual Studio Code 1.50.

But seven years after he first cooked up the idea for his new-age code editor, it has arrived. It's called Atom, and today, Wanstrath and GitHub are set to unveil version 1.0 at a conference in ...