is "miscrosoft visual studio" bad or okay? we enjoy the ease-of-use and relatively soft visuals of atom but it's apparently going to stop receiving updates in december :(, is there another good lightweight syntax-highlight-y text editor out there?

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despite the prior dithering on this, we're prolly plural tbh
is "miscrosoft visual studio" bad or okay? we enjoy the ease-of-use and relatively soft visuals of atom but it's apparently going to stop receiving updates in december :(, is there another good lightweight syntax-highlight-y text editor out there?
Specifically, you'd want Visual Studio Code, which is different from Visual Studio.
VSCode focuses on code editing, and you can install extensions from inside the editor in case you need more language support or more features.
The one called just "Visual Studio" is a full-fledged Windows-only IDE. It is not lightweight, but it is fine for what it does (be an IDE for C++ and Microsoft-centric languages like C#).
thank you for your genuine answer, we'll keep that in mind + look into it more! we were a little silly from being close-to-sleep when we cohosted this, it's nice to be taken seriously anyway
visual studio code is my goto for light stuff :) it’s free and open source, and has enough extensions to do most things !
if you want really good performance Nova is great for Mac, and it’s subscription free (you buy it, and then get a year of updates - after that, you only need to pay for future patches)
if you’re using Unity or other tool that’s C# based for game dev, I recommend Rider, with VS (non-code) as a close second (but keep an eye out for their licensing if you’re making over a certain amount)
thank you for a genuine answer to a slightly silly chost we made while very sleepy!
To be pedantic, vscode is not FOSS because it contains non-free binaries. If you care about that kind of stuff, you can use vscodium which is the same thing but compiled with all free binaries. (I don't actually care about that stuff, I just use vscode)
i mean, to be even more precise, the builds of VSCode that microsoft provide aren't - vscodium is just the easy alternative to cloning and build VS code from microsoft/vscode
but! yes, vscodium is a good project. my only big thing to flag up is, be careful if you use these tools for work - despite the project being very cool, i'm aware of many companies where VS Code is approved banning Codium because it's built by third parties