Free IDEs for students

Check out Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code — it’s getting better and better (they give regular updates every month). And it’s FREE.

What I like about it.

  • integrated Git (no need to launch another program, or go command line), means less forgetting to use it
  • there’s a debugger built in, haven’t tried it.
  • easy access to terminal, if you really need to go command line. no need to launch a separate program.
  • lots of extensions, which adds more functionalities and features to the IDE. (Less, Scss compilers, code completion, code peek, etc)
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