Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

Setting up Visual Studio Code Even though Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft product, it’s available for all three major development platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.

If you want to code using Visual Studio Code but you're using a Chromebook, it's not a problem at all.

Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

Microsoft Visual C++-2015 Redistributable If Windows prompts you to allow the program to make changes or continue, click on the Yes or Allow button.