Visual Studio Code for Mac is a lightweight yet powerful source code editor that runs from your Mac* desktop. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js, and has a wide range of extensions available for other languages, including C++, C#, Python, and PHP.

Visual Studio Code for Mac is an integrated development environment (IDE) and the focus of this version is on its lightness. Visual Studio Code launches in seconds, and the autocomplete feature is fast. All settings for the IDE are based on projects and JSON files, and the search interface is really powerful, responsive, and supports Regex.

Visual Studio Code for Mac has been well designed, aesthetically pleasing, and has good functionality, and IntelliSense and autocomplete work well with JSON, CSS, HTML, {less}, and Node.js. The only downside to this editor that we can find is that support for other languages ​​for that matter, such as PHP, seems to be somewhat lacking as you only get syntax highlighting.

Visual Studio Code for Mac is actually aimed at JavaScript developers who need a full development tool for server-side scripting and might want to move from Node.js to .NET-based frameworks. All in all, Visual Studio Code for Mac is a lightweight yet robust cross-platform code editor that can be used by anyone to create applications for the web or the cloud.

* Also available for Windows and Linux.