
Like VS Code, you can easily install Atom on Linux and other platforms. Since Atom is a GitHub product, it has Git Control embedded in it.Ītom is dubbed as the “hackable text editor for the 21st Century” because of it complete customizability using HTML, CSS and JS. Atom is a desktop application made with Electron for easy package development using JavaScript.Ītom’s source code was released under the MIT License on GitHub. GitHub’s Atom is another free and open source code editor available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

However, the discussion on VSCodium is beyond the scope of this article, except for considering it as a viable alternative to Visual Studio Code if you want the functionality Visual Studio Code offers, but without any proprietary elements to it. VSCodium builds upon the publicly open source code of Visual Studio Code. The binary releases distributed by Microsoft are still proprietary freeware.

VS Code developers have done some fantastic optimizations with Electron to make it as lightweight and efficient as possible.

Microsoft released most of the source code of Visual Studio Code on GitHub under the MIT License on 18th November 2015. Visual Studio Code was made by Microsoft and is available on Linux, macOS and Windows. Its user-base explode because of its IDE-like features but still remaining relatively light on resources. VS Code) is one of the modern open source code editors. Visual Studio Code’s User Interface with a busy project interface
