You Can Now Install Microsoft's Visual Studio Code IDE as a Snap on Ubuntu Linux

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

After informing Ubuntu Linux users about the fact that it’s possible to install GitHub’s Atom hackable text editor as a Snap, Canonical’s David Callé is now announcing the availability of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code IDE as a Snap.

At the request of many users, the Visual Studio Code source code editor can now finally be installed on any of the supported Ubuntu Linux distributions as a Snap package directly from Canonical’s Snappy Store, with a simple command that you need to execute in the Terminal app.

“Launched in 2015 by Microsoft, Visual Studio Code has imposed itself as one of the preferred code editors in the developer community. Cross-platform (powered by Electron), it features a marketplace of more than 3000 extensions where any language can find its linters, debuggers and test runners,” said David Callé in the <a href="ht… (read more)

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