Not to be confused with the
IDE Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code is a text editor on steroids, comparable to the Atom Editor, but unlike that, it's blazing fast and feature-rich.
It's an open source project mainly developed by Microsoft which also explains the name.
Because it's awesome and free, it has gained a large community also supplying thousands of extensions installable with a single click, for everything you will ever need.
It's most powerful with web-based applications, but it can be used for almost any
scripting or programming language.
A: "Damn,
debugging nodejs is such a
pain in the ass"
B: "Use Visual Studio Code."
A: "Wow it's really good"