Visual Studio Code

Last updated: Oct 28, 2026

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Rationale

VS Code is the code editor of the engineering team of Fluid Attacks.

These are the primary reasons why Fluid Attacks selected it and not other alternatives:

• It is open source.
• It is a modern code editor.
• It supports thousands of extensions. Thus, it is very flexible.
• It is one of the most popular code editors in the market.
• Because it is popular, developers usually know it.
• It is between a GUI-based and a keyboard-based code editor.

Alternatives

Fluid Attacks examined these alternatives, but it did not select them for these reasons:

VSCodium

• VSCodium does not track telemetry, but Microsoft's VS Code does. This is not important for Fluid Attacks.
• Many extensions in the extension store of Microsoft's VS Code are not in VSCodium, because VSCodium has its own extension store.

Neovim

• Neovim is not as popular as VS Code.
• Its extension store is much smaller.
• It is primarily a keyboard-based code editor. Thus, it is less generic.
• It is harder to learn.

Usage

Fluid Attacks uses VS Code as the official code editor of its engineering team.