Now 100% of Visual Studio Code is written in Visual Studio Code itself. Why did it become so popular in such a short time? According to the Visual Studio Code team, they started dogfooding on very early stages of development. Visual Studio Code started gaining popularity quickly and within four years, became the most popular IDE among developers. It's based on the Electron open-source framework. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight multiplatform IDE (Integrated Development Environment), that lets users add a wide variety of extensions (commonly called plug-ins in other IDEs). I encourage you to watch this very interesting Visual Studio Code launch interview with Erich Gamma on Channel 9 ( ). In April 2015, the team released the initial version of Visual Studio Code. At Microsoft, Gamma led a small development lab out of Zurich, Switzerland. He's most known as one of the “gang of four” authors of the influential “Design Patterns” book. In 2011, a Swiss computer scientist named Erich Gamma joined Microsoft.

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