What problem it solves

Developers need support for their core edit-build-debug cycle. The project addresses this need with comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.

Key features

• Code editing and navigation — The editor provides comprehensive support for editing, navigating, and understanding code.

  Source: README

• Lightweight debugging — Developers can use integrated debugging support as part of the core edit-build-debug cycle.

  Source: README

• Extensibility model — The project includes a rich extensibility model and a set of built-in extensions for language support.

  Source: README, extensions

• Bundled language support — Built-in extensions include grammars and snippets for many languages, with richer language capabilities provided by extensions using the `language-features` suffix.

  Source: README

• Container-based development — The repository includes a development container for working with the project through Dev Containers or Codespaces.

  Source: README, .devcontainer

Who it may suit

This may suit developers who want to build, run, and contribute to a cross-platform code editor with integrated editing, debugging, and extension support.

Topics to discuss

• Which development workflow should be prioritized for new contributors?

• How can the extension API be made easier to understand and use?

• Which areas of the edit-build-debug cycle need the most community feedback?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/microsoft/vscode#readme

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