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		eatbitseveryday on Oct 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these d... > Visual Studio ran on Mac Visual Studio Code does. Is that the same? Even has native M1 support.

pxc on Oct 17, 2021 [–]

It's not the same at all. Visual Studio is an IDE (like Eclipse) and Visual Studio Code is an extensible text editor (like Emacs).

It is pretty good though. It's enjoying a big surge in popularity lately and seems to deserve it.

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