Can VS Code replace IDE?

Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a source code editor with powerful developer tooling, like IntelliSense code completion and debugging. … The delightfully frictionless edit-build-debug cycle means less time fiddling with your environment, and more time executing on your ideas.

You can make VS Code do pretty much anything you want. Although it is designed to be a “code editor” and not an IDE, you can almost exactly replicate the features of an IDE by installing VS Code extensions .

Visual Studio Community. A fully-featured, extensible, free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, Windows, as well as web applications and cloud services.