Microsofts Visual Studio Code on Linux

On the last weekend i was wondering, what kind of IDE i can use for doing some small programs with javascript. My first idea was eclipse, but a friend mentioned Microsofts Visual Studio Code:

 So i opened https://code.visualstudio.com/ and got

So i downloaded the .deb and after a dpkg -i of that file i was able to run Visual Studio Code on my Linux machine:

schroff@zerberus:~$ code 

The startup was amazing fast - less a second.

Within Visual Studio Code it is very easy to install some extensions:

Running a small javascript program is very easy. I just entered these lines and without any further configuration running the program or debugging was no problem: