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TextPad vs Visual Studio Code

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

TextPad

TextPad

Office & Productivity

TextPad is a text editor for Windows. It has features for editing plain text, source code, and markup languages. It's lightweight, customizable, and supports syntax highlighting, macros, editing multiple files in tabs, and more.

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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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