microsoft/vscode
Visual Studio Code
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[](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afeature-request+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc) [](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Abug) This repository ("Code - OSS") is where we (Microsoft) develop the Visual Studio Code product together with the community. Not only do we work on code and issues here, but we also publish our roadmap, monthly iteration plans, and our endgame plans. This source code is available to everyone under the standard MIT license. Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license. Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools. Visual Studio Code is updated monthly with new features and bug fixes. You can download it for Windows, macOS, and Linux on the Visual Studio Code website. To get the…
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- Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS")
- The Repository
- Visual Studio Code
- Contributing
- Feedback
- Related Projects
- Bundled Extensions
- Development Container
- Code of Conduct
- License
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What this repository does
Visual Studio Code
Repository facts
- Owner
- microsoft
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 194,445
- Forks
- 44,349
- Open issues + pull requests
- 21,960
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2015-09-03T20:23:38.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T10:40:46.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: editor, electron, microsoft, typescript, visual-studio-code
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