Having these as options makes many tasks easy, faster and more concise. However, for the enlightened few who are just at home on mac or linux and who use python, node.js, json, c#, typescript etc interchangeably a light-weight, fast, cross platform code editor is essential. I downloaded visual basic for mac yesturday and opened up a project which I previously worked on for it not to work. Obviously, if you are an old-school windows/asp.net/.net sort of developer you have no need for something like vs code or zed since you stay in Visual Studio all the time. Visual Studio (VB.Net) for Mac Im taking a college course that uses visual studio and using the programming language VB.Net. You can find tips for compiling to byte code, Mac and Unix environments. While lacking those important features does reduce vs code's utility, the fact that it works across environments, has minimal window dressing, split panels, user editable configuration and is based on a node.js engine, makes it a very usable cross language editor. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free and open-source IDE created by Microsoft. Nearly everything else it has is copied there. Http Studio Code Org SectionsĪbout the only important features I've found which vs code does not share with ZED is the auto-save feature and VIM keyboard bindings. What makes ZED unique is a set of principles designed to 'reduce the cognitive load' of developing. 8,709 15 15 gold badges 56 56 silver badges 76 76 bronze badgesĪlthough it's not mentioned by Microsoft,it appears that vscode is a clone of the ZED ide/text editor.