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VS Code

Microsoft has bought GitHub, and hence also the text editor Atom. VS Code is a similar free, open-source in-house Microsoft product, and as at 2021 development efforts (for example Julia) seem to be favoured here.

Pre-requisites

VS Code Insiders can be downloaded from here need the insiders build so the Jupyter notebook extension supports non-python kernels.

Extensions

The extensions I select to extend functionality:

  • julia
  • latex workshop
  • python
  • jupyter (auto-installed with python)
  • github pull requests and issues