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+title: "Visual Studio Code"
+category: "Code editors"
+tagline: "Microsoft's popular code editor, with a huge library of extensions."
+source: "Flathub"
+package: "com.visualstudio.code"
+website: "https://code.visualstudio.com/"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+Visual Studio Code is a code editor from Microsoft. It has syntax highlighting, code completion and debugging for most languages, a built-in terminal and Git support, and a marketplace of extensions that add languages, themes, linters and tools.
+
+It sits between a plain text editor and a full IDE: light enough to open a single file, capable enough for large projects.
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **The extension marketplace.** Almost every language, framework and service has a VS Code extension.
+- **Familiar.** Many developers already know it, and many tutorials assume it.
+- **Microsoft's own build.** Some extensions, such as Live Share and the remote development tools, work only in Microsoft's release.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+VS Code is installed from Flathub. Open it from the app menu. It runs in Flatpak's sandbox, so its built-in terminal and extensions don't see every tool installed on the system. If you'd prefer the same editor without Microsoft's telemetry and licensing, CoreDesktop also installs [VSCodium](/software/vscodium/).
+
+`update` keeps VS Code current with the rest of the Flatpaks.