In 2015, Microsoft launched its answer to that question: Visual Studio Code. At heart, VS Code is a text editor, based on GitHub’s cross-platform Electron framework.

These surprising Visual Studio Code extensions aren't just for writing and editing code—though they'll also help you do that. Visual Studio Code is a terrific software development environment ...

Microsoft has released a new open-source monospace font called Cascadia Code. The font is meant to be used with tools such as Visual Studio or Windows Terminal, and it supports ligatures.