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A text editor is at the heart of a developer’s workflow. I recently switched my primary coding editor from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Sublime Text is a great editor, but some features that VS Code has are not available in the Sublime ecosystem. A few of those features were “killer” enough that I made the switch. The best part was that VS Code has plugins that can reconfigure it to act like Sublime Text. All those keyboard shortcuts I used for years are still intact, so very little muscle memory retraining is necessary.

VS Code also was able to import the custom color scheme I use for editing. This might seem OCD, but having consistent colors adds a real dimension to the code that makes reading it far easier and gives a quick and intuitive understanding at a glance, as opposed to having to parse the code mentally. Good color coding can make or break the experience. VS Code also has a great ecosystem of add-ons and other extensions that replicates and even exceeds what Sublime Text has.

Best of all, VS Code is Microsoft’s gift to the developer community and it’s a free and open source project. Yep, that Microsoft. It’s actually been around for a while, but is gaining traction in all sorts of circles. Even better, VS Code doesn’t care what your underlying OS is. It works equally well on Linux , Windows, and MacOS.

Where to get Visual Studio Code If you edit any code (not just PHP ) give VS Code a whirl.

Get more info (and download it) at https://code.visualstudio.com/ Check out the marketplace of extensions .

Chris Mospaw

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