Everybody who writes, let it be a story, a piece of code or maybe to take a few notes or something, you need a text editor. This is where VSCode comes in. It can do all a simple note-taking app can do and much more. With extensions you can extend the functionality of the editor. For example, with Better Fountain extension you can write and format screenplays. In this article, you’ll learn about installing and basic setup and an overview of some of its features and extensions. And it is available for all platforms Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is based on the microsoft’s own opensource Code - OSS project which is released under MIT License. VSCode is released under Microsoft product license . Installation You can download the latest version of Visual Studio Code from here . For Debian based distributions there is a .deb package available, and .rpm package for RHEL, CentOS , fedora, OpenSUSE etc. For Arch-based distributions, there is a community version Code - OSS (a...