It's open source and free.

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

Runs on mac, ubuntu, and windows, but not on android now.

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

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.

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

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

It has several addons you can add as you need.

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor. Shift+~ is a handy hotkey to toggle the integrated terminal.

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

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

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.

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

JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code.

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.

Released under the MIT License.

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

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

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

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

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

All code can be ran quickly with an a.out file or a code runner extension.

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

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

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

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript.

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.