Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code for GNU/Linux, OS X, and Windows | Linux Today

Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code for GNU/Linux, OS X, and Windows

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Marius Nestor
Nov 18, 2015

Microsoft published the Visual Code Studio sources on the GitHub project hosting website, urging the community to contribute to the development of the software in any way they can. “You spoke and we listened. With this release, VS Code development is now open source on GitHub,” said Microsoft.

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Marius Nestor

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