

Visual Studio Code supports multiple languages, and offers a myriad of tools necessary for the smooth development of cross-platform apps including syntax highlighting and snippets. Visual Studio Code allows a developer to create Web and cloud-based apps that will run on each of the three major platforms, and while the app is still in preview, anybody looking to test it out can do so by checking the link at the foot of this article. This time-consuming rigmarole is one of the primary reasons why many apps are only available on one or two platforms, since a developer doesn’t often have the time and or resources to cater to other audiences, but through Visual Studio Code, Microsoft is looking to simplify the situation. So if you have a service that you want to run on Windows, Mac and variants of Linux, you must program different apps to suit the platform in question. The way that traditional programming languages work is that an app built for one platform will, by and large, not work on another. Microsoft has used its BUILD conference to unleash Visual Studio Code, a lightweight code editor that allows developers to build cross-platform apps on Windows, OS X and Linux.
