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PureText vs Visual Studio Code

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

PureText

PureText

Office & Productivity

PureText is a simple and lightweight plain text editor for Windows. It has a clean interface and basic formatting tools, supports syntax highlighting for code, and allows quick searching and opening of text files.

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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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