Visual Studio Code

Rationale

VS Code  is the code editor used by Fluid Attacks’ engineering team.

The main reasons why we chose it over other alternatives are:

• It is open source .
• It is a modern code editor.
• It supports thousands of extensions, making it very flexible.
• It is one of the most popular code editors in the market.
• Due to its popularity, developers are usually familiar with it.
• It provides a middle ground between a GUI-based and a keyboard-based code editor.

Alternatives

The following alternatives were considered but not chosen for the following reasons:

VSCodium

• VSCodium  does not track telemetry compared to Microsoft’s VS Code, but this is not relevant to us.
• Many extensions found on Microsoft’s VS Code extension store are not in VSCodium, as it has its own extension store.

Neovim

• Neovim  is not as popular as VS Code.
• It has a much smaller extension store.
• It focuses on being a keyboard-based code editor, which makes it less generic.
• It has a higher learning curve.

Usage

We use VS Code  as the official code editor for Fluid Attacks’ engineering team.