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Microsoft has announced the public preview launch of Visual Studio Code for the Web, a browser-based version of its free and cross-platform VS Code integrated development environment (IDE).

[Click on image for larger view.] GitHub's Codespaces (source: GitHub). And, on the very same day (Dec. 15), GitLab posted " A first look at the new GitLab Web IDE and remote development experience," ...

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

Image: WebStorm What is Visual Studio Code? Visual Studio Code is a free, popular, and lightweight source code editor for many languages. Supported languages include JavaScript, Java, C++, and Python.