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Basic Notepad vs Visual Studio Code

A side-by-side look at Basic Notepad and Visual Studio Code. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Basic Notepad

Basic Notepad

Office & Productivity

Basic Notepad is a simple text editor for Windows that allows users to open, edit, and save plain text documents. It has basic formatting functions like font and text size changes. Useful for quickly taking notes or writing short documents.

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Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code

Development

Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source, lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft. It supports debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and Git control. VS Code has a large extension ecosystem allowing developers to add new languages, themes, debuggers and tools.

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