

The stable release is ideal for those who are very particular about not getting any interruptions even occasionally. The main difference between the two lies in the channel’s name. And the other one is the Insiders release that gets an update almost every day. The first one is the Stable release that sees an update once every 15-30 days at an average. Secondly, it has two versions of the product that is available for download publically.

It is worth mentioning that Visual Studio Code is an open source project with its repository on Github. This article is a step by step guide about Visual Studio Code, briefing about its different channels and how to install and use it properly.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in the variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It can help you debug your code it has embedded control for Git, Syntax Highlighting, IntelliSense to help you write correct code faster, snippets and code refactoring. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual Studio 2017. About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
