- Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which - runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It comes - with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich - ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP) - and runtimes. -
-- The editor includes built-in support for the Git distributed version control - system, intelligent code completion, support for highlighting and completing - many programming languages, and and integrated debugging interface. Additional - functionality is provided by optional extensions. -
+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. See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux for installation instructions and FAQ.