Software · Development
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: debugging and built-in terminal.
- Completely free
- Windows, macOS and Linux
- No account
Overview
Visual Studio Code is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Features described in its GitHub repository, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: debugging and built-in terminal.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
- “Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
- “IMPORTANT: To use certain features in this flatpacked version (like the integrated terminal), please read the linked documentation.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Visual Studio Code is completely free: no known feature is locked behind a paid plan.
It is distributed under a proprietary licence: free to use under its terms, which may change; that licence is not an open source licence.
Strengths
- No account needed
- Commercial use allowed
Weaknesses
- Closed source
About
**NOTE: This is the proprietary Microsoft build of Visual Studio Code, packaged into a Flatpak. This repackaging is not supported by Microsoft.** Visual Studio Code is a new choice of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for the core edit-build-debug cycle. IMPORTANT: To use certain features in this flatpacked version (like the integrated terminal), please read the linked documentation.
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
- Facts collected from code.visualstudio.com (account, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
- Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
- Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
- Facts collected from Homebrew (platforms) —
- Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
- Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (publisher, platforms, version) —
- Facts collected from Automatic reading of the official pages (free status) —
- Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
- Last technical check: 6 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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