It has a very large plugin system that probably rivals Sublime quality and surpasses it for web languages.

Released under the MIT License.

VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control.

It leverages system's default terminal inside the editor.

Blazing fast.

This is good and bad. It means that you get decent auto-complete for many things, but if you are using babel or another compiler then you might be using a feature that Typescript doesn't have and then it complains endlessly.

The autocompletion is simply the best.

Task runners display lists of available tasks and performing these tasks is as simple as a click of the mouse.

For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well.

It's really nice to see how the code editor evolves. Every month there is a new version with great communication of new features and changes.

There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily.

These features allow you to have a glance at code without opening it as a whole in a separate tab. Moreover, editing is allowed.

The Omnisharp plugin is very powerful providing full sln, csproj, and project.json support.

Even without changing the default theme, vscode could be ranked as the most elegant editor.

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plug-ins available to extend its functionality.

ESLint integrates great. You can define your rules trough .eslintrc.* as usual and vs code will autofix your code on save. So your code is always in style.

Excellent Python plugin, originally created by Don Jayamanne, now hired by Microsoft to extend and maintain the extension.

The ease of getting assistance and finding tutorials is increasing as the community grows.

VS-Code has the speed of Sublime and the power of WebStorm. Perhaps this is the best software that Microsoft has ever created.

All it takes is one stop for all the features many people need.

Snippets are templates that will insert text for you and adapt it to their context, and in VSC they are highly customizable.

You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered.

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript.

It supports pretty much all web rtl languages like arabic languages when most of other editors don't support it.

There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript.

It leverages TypeScript compiler functionality to statically type check JS (type inference, JSDoc types) with "javascript.implicitProjectConfig.checkJs": true option.