Microsoft is showing even more cross-platform love as they release a new code editing program called Visual Studio Code – available for download today on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Not to be confused with Visual Studio, the world class IDE, Visual Studio Code is more Sublime Text or Notepad++ than full IDE. That’s not to say it isn’t a capable editor however, it’s got plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

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Code is a different type of editor. It’s much more lightweight than a full IDE, but provides powerful features like a debugger (currently for node.js, ASP.NET 5 and more coming soon), syntax hilighting for dozens of languages, intellisense, git integration, bracket matching, and more. It even has parameter hints for PHP! 

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