Development
Visual Studio Code 1.74
When it comes to open source development tools, the first thing you need is a programmer’s editor.
The Visual Studio Code project was originally started by Microsoft, a company not particularly renowned for its support of Linux. Rest assured that it was soon released under the MIT licence and is, today, a fully open source project, and one of which we’re huge fans.
You might notice that Visual Studio Code looks a bit different from other applications and lacks a native feel. That’s because it’s coded using a framework called Electron. This gives the developers complete control of the layout, even if it means that it doesn’t fit in with the overall style of the desktop it’s running on. Sometimes, apps programmed in this way can be sluggish, but we haven’t encountered any problems with it, and it’s surprisingly good on a resource-constrained device such as a Raspberry Pi.