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In March, Microsoft released version 1.0 a free standalone code editor and debugging tool called Visual Studio Code. I've only just 'discovered' it.

I have had a quick look and installed a few of the popular extensions, and it looks quite capable and polished so far. All the usual stuff, intelli-sense completion, syntax highlighting, regex support, code prettifying, linting etc, etc.

I'll be sticking with Sublime for now, but I'm leaving this installed and trying it from time to time to see how I get on.

If anyone is looking for a decent code editor for JS, HTML, PHP (or lots of other languages), this is worth a look.

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Let me know how you get on if you try it.

PS: Just like Sublime, you'll need to have Node.js installed for the linting extensions to JS.

Thanks, Mark.
I downloaded this and have been playing for the last couple of evenings. I gave up with Dreamweaver for php, js etc a while ago and have been with Notepad++ since. This looks good for my limited skills.

Hi John,

Yes, I think it is looking pretty good, I have the in-editor PHP and PowerShell debuggers working now, and the link to Chrome works too - though I still like the Chrome Dev Tools for debugging. I like the fact that it will open image files and display them too, I found that by accident! - handy when you point it at a folder that has all sorts of mixed files.

I see there is an SVG visualiser extension too, which is something I keep meaning to look at some more - never enough time though.