While the Visual Studio Code IDE was demoed at Microsofts BUILD Conference today under Ubuntu Linux, the 64-bit VS Code Linux package ran just fine on Fedora 21 without having to install any extra dependencies. Alternatively, there is a Flatpak package for it in the Flathub repository. Following the big news just now that Microsoft released their new Visual Studio IDE for Linux, I downloaded it and tried out on Fedora 21. It involves adding its official repository using DNF, and installing it from it. Official installation instructions can be found here. These official builds have extra features, most notably they have support for installing extensions from the VSCode marketplace via its extension gallery, while open-source builds do not.
Despite being open-source official builds of VSCode by Microsoft are licensed under a proprietary EULA as they include proprietary branding. Just head over to the download page of Visual Studio Code and youll find the. It has several IDE-type features (such as an integrated debugger, code completion and linting), so it can be argued to be an IDE. Microsoft provides packages to install Visual Studio Code in Linux.
Visual Studio Code (or VSCode for short) is an open-source (licensed under the MIT License) text editor developed by Microsoft.
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