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Desmond Dallas
Desmond Dallas
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Posted by Desmond Dallas
Desmond Dallas
6,985 Points

visual studio community

Hi, Im using Visual Studio Code on my Mac for however, I keep hearing of Visual Studio Community. Would like to know if these are the same thing?

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Matthew Cushing
Matthew Cushing
12,048 Points
Matthew Cushing
Matthew Cushing
12,048 Points

Visual Studio Community is a full fledged IDE. Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's version of a lightweight programming text editor. Visual Studio Community will give you access to things like a debugger, running your code and generating an executable, as well as just a lot more tools. Visual Studio Code can do have access to tools like this although it will take some work getting it working through extensions and customization. Visual Studio Community is limited in the languages you can write with while VS Code is pretty much limitless as you can most likely find syntax highlighting and other support via an extension from the community if it is not already offered.