Visual Studio Code: New version 1.41 available for the year 2020
Visual Studio Code (VSC) is a software «Código Abierto» which seems like an excellent mix between a «Editor de texto» advanced, and a small but robust «IDE». Since, among many things, it allows you to create great applications or systems through a good number of functionalities and incorporated features.
Initially, VSC was oriented to the development of «Front-end», but since then, support for other programming languages has grown to include Ruby, Go, C / C ++, and Python, among many others. In addition, it has very useful built-in functions, such as IntelliSense and Git Integration.
VSC also supports a rich ecosystem of extensions built by the community. All this, and more, like support multi platform and the possibility that anyone can create extensions for it, make VSC an excellent alternative and even a good rival for others Text editors and IDEs.
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Visual Studio Code General Features
Although in other previous posts, we have talked about VSC and also from its fork, called VS Codium, it is worth detailing and highlighting VSC own aspects, characteristics or functionalities, such as:
- IntelliSense: Which allows you to go beyond the simple and common syntax highlighting and auto-completion, as it provides intelligent completions based on imported variable types, function definitions, and modules.
- Debugging: Its enhanced features for the topic of code debugging are excellent, allowing you to perform them directly from the Editor, making use of breakpoints, call stacks, and an interactive console.
- Integrated git: Its fabulous integration with the GIT program mainly, and other version control systems or VCS (Version Control System), allow an easy evolution and construction of the elaborated software development.
- Extensions: Its enormous capacity to grow via extensions and its wonderful customization capacity through them, make it a wonderful piece of software. The various extensions can be for languages, themes, debuggers, or additional services, and they run in separate processes, ensuring that the editor will not slow down.
- Multiplatform: Currently has native support for Windows, Mac OS and Linux (.deb, .rpm, tar.gz and .snap).
Specific features of the new version 1.41
Among the new features or functionalities added, improved or corrected in this new «versión 1.41» available, we can cite the following most outstanding, according to the what's new section of this version, En of official website:
- The compact folders display is collapsed and by default.
- Mutual editing of files in the format of a difference view.
- Updating the global search results, while they are being written.
- Issues dashboard improvements, including filtering by issue type.
- A Mini Map that easily and efficiently highlights bugs and content changes.
- Possibility of changing the minimum contrast ratio of the terminal to increase visibility in it.
- Inclusion of an HTML mirror cursor in the tags to improve the use of them within the code.
- Optional chaining support for JavaScript and TypeScript to simplify working with nested structures.
- The inclusion of a new Extract to Interface refactoring that allows a type to be quickly extracted inline to an interface so that it can be reused.
- New extension for container management, which considerably improves handling over Docker containers.
Extra news
Also, with this «versión 1.41» has been launched at the same time Visual Studio Online, what is a Browser-based editor, to create and connect to cloud-based development environments.
Conclusion
We hope you are "small but useful post" about this excellent «IDE de código abierto» called «Visual Studio Code» which has currently been well received by developers in the free and open world, is of great interest and usefulness, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of and for «GNU/Linux».
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