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Add VSCode to list of text editors #673

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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ There are a number of different editors designed for programming. You may alread
* <a href="http://macromates.com/" target="_blank">TextMate</a> is very popular in the Ruby and Rails community. It is not free.
* <a href="http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download.html" target="_blank">Aptana Studio</a> is a free, full-featured, development IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Ruby and Rails. It has many powerful features to assist you while you develop your code. You can install Aptana as either a stand-along program or as an <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/" target="_blank">Eclipse</a> plugin.
* <a href="http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/" target="_blank">RubyMine</a> is used by many companies for their Ruby and Rails software development. Is is also a full-featured IDE, very similar to Aptana. RubyMine is not free, but has a 30-day evaluation period.
* <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/" target="_blank">VS Code</a> is a free, lightweight but powerful source-code editor made by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle.

There are other programming editors available, but these are among the most popular. Some people use simple non-programming editors, such as NotePad (or WordPad or TextEdit in "plain text" mode). It is fine to use a simple editor, though at some point you should look into using an editor designed for programming as using a programming editor or IDE will improve your programming productivity.

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