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Alternatives to CodeMirror

Ace, TinyMCE, Prism, Visual Studio Code, and Sublime Text are the most popular alternatives and competitors to CodeMirror.
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What is CodeMirror and what are its top alternatives?

CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.
CodeMirror is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
CodeMirror is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CodeMirror's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to CodeMirror

  • Ace
    Ace

    Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a browser based editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page or JavaScript application. ...

  • TinyMCE
    TinyMCE

    It is the most advanced WYSWIYG HTML editor designed to simplify website content creation. The rich text editing platform that helped launch Atlassian, Medium, Evernote, and more. ...

  • Prism
    Prism

    It is a lightweight, beautiful and extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s used in thousands of websites, including some of those you visit daily. ...

  • Visual Studio Code
    Visual Studio Code

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. ...

  • Sublime Text
    Sublime Text

    Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform. ...

  • Vim
    Vim

    Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware. ...

  • Notepad++
    Notepad++

    Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. ...

  • Atom
    Atom

    At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it. ...

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Ace

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PROS OF ACE
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    The best Editor out there
  • 1
    Non-microsoft
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    Javascript based
  • 1
    Faster to load and edit big files
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    TinyMCE

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        I want to use a WYSIWYG editor that gives the feature to export as Word, please. CKEditor5 provides Export to Word. After export, it has an issue with Bulleting/Numbering. TinyMCE doesn't provide Export to Word

        Want to try PHPdocx, anyone has a review of it, please?

        Does anybody have any other tool suggestions, please?

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        Prism logo

        Prism

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            Visual Studio Code

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            PROS OF VISUAL STUDIO CODE
            • 336
              Powerful multilanguage IDE
            • 304
              Fast
            • 193
              Front-end develop out of the box
            • 158
              Support TypeScript IntelliSense
            • 142
              Very basic but free
            • 125
              Git integration
            • 106
              Intellisense
            • 77
              Faster than Atom
            • 53
              Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
            • 44
              Great Refactoring Tools
            • 43
              Good Plugins
            • 41
              Terminal
            • 37
              Superb markdown support
            • 36
              Open Source
            • 34
              Extensions
            • 26
              Large & up-to-date extension community
            • 26
              Awesome UI
            • 23
              Powerful and fast
            • 21
              Portable
            • 18
              Best code editor
            • 17
              Best editor
            • 16
              Easy to get started with
            • 15
              Crossplatform
            • 15
              Built on Electron
            • 15
              Good for begginers
            • 15
              Lots of extensions
            • 14
              Extensions for everything
            • 14
              All Languages Support
            • 14
              Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
            • 13
              Easy to use and learn
            • 12
              "fast, stable & easy to use"
            • 12
              Extensible
            • 11
              Git out of the box
            • 11
              Useful for begginer
            • 11
              Ui design is great
            • 11
              Faster edit for slow computer
            • 11
              Totally customizable
            • 10
              Great community
            • 9
              Fast Startup
            • 9
              Powerful Debugger
            • 9
              Great language support
            • 9
              It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
            • 9
              SSH support
            • 9
              Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
            • 8
              Can compile and run .py files
            • 8
              Python extension is fast
            • 7
              Great document formater
            • 7
              Features rich
            • 6
              Awesome multi cursor support
            • 6
              She is not Rachel
            • 6
              He is not Michael
            • 5
              VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
            • 5
              Extension Echosystem
            • 5
              Very proffesional
            • 5
              Language server client
            • 5
              Easy azure
            • 5
              SFTP Workspace
            • 4
              Has better support and more extentions for debugging
            • 4
              Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
            • 4
              Virtualenv integration
            • 3
              More tools to integrate with vs
            • 3
              Better autocompletes than Atom
            • 3
              Emmet preinstalled
            • 3
              Has more than enough languages for any developer
            • 3
              Supports lots of operating systems
            • 3
              'batteries included'
            • 2
              Fast and ruby is built right in
            • 2
              Customizable
            • 2
              VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
            • 2
              CMake support with autocomplete
            • 2
              Light
            • 2
              Microsoft
            • 1
              Big extension marketplace
            • 1
              Good
            CONS OF VISUAL STUDIO CODE
            • 45
              Slow startup
            • 28
              Resource hog at times
            • 20
              Poor refactoring
            • 15
              Microsoft
            • 13
              Poor UI Designer
            • 11
              Weak Ui design tools
            • 10
              Poor autocomplete
            • 8
              Microsoft sends telemetry data
            • 7
              Poor in PHP
            • 7
              Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
            • 7
              Super Slow
            • 5
              It's MicroSoft
            • 3
              No built in live Preview
            • 3
              No Built in Browser Preview
            • 3
              Poor in Python
            • 3
              Electron
            • 3
              No color Intergrator
            • 3
              Very basic for java development and buggy at times
            • 2
              Powered by Electron
            • 2
              Bad Plugin Architecture
            • 1
              Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
            • 1
              Slow C++ Language Server

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            Simon Reymann
            Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 30 upvotes · 6M views

            Our whole DevOps stack consists of the following tools:

            • GitHub (incl. GitHub Pages/Markdown for Documentation, GettingStarted and HowTo's) for collaborative review and code management tool
            • Respectively Git as revision control system
            • SourceTree as Git GUI
            • Visual Studio Code as IDE
            • CircleCI for continuous integration (automatize development process)
            • Prettier / TSLint / ESLint as code linter
            • SonarQube as quality gate
            • Docker as container management (incl. Docker Compose for multi-container application management)
            • VirtualBox for operating system simulation tests
            • Kubernetes as cluster management for docker containers
            • Heroku for deploying in test environments
            • nginx as web server (preferably used as facade server in production environment)
            • SSLMate (using OpenSSL) for certificate management
            • Amazon EC2 (incl. Amazon S3) for deploying in stage (production-like) and production environments
            • PostgreSQL as preferred database system
            • Redis as preferred in-memory database/store (great for caching)

            The main reason we have chosen Kubernetes over Docker Swarm is related to the following artifacts:

            • Key features: Easy and flexible installation, Clear dashboard, Great scaling operations, Monitoring is an integral part, Great load balancing concepts, Monitors the condition and ensures compensation in the event of failure.
            • Applications: An application can be deployed using a combination of pods, deployments, and services (or micro-services).
            • Functionality: Kubernetes as a complex installation and setup process, but it not as limited as Docker Swarm.
            • Monitoring: It supports multiple versions of logging and monitoring when the services are deployed within the cluster (Elasticsearch/Kibana (ELK), Heapster/Grafana, Sysdig cloud integration).
            • Scalability: All-in-one framework for distributed systems.
            • Other Benefits: Kubernetes is backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), huge community among container orchestration tools, it is an open source and modular tool that works with any OS.
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            Johnny Bell

            I've been in the #frontend game for about 7 years now. I started coding in Sublime Text because all of the tutorials I was doing back then everyone was using it. I found the speed amazing compared to some other tools at the time. I kept using Sublime Text for about 4-5 years.

            I find Sublime Text lacks some functionality, after all it is just a text editor rather than a full fledged IDE. I finally converted over to PhpStorm as I was working with Magento and Magento as you know is mainly #PHP based.

            This was amazing all the features in PhpStorm I loved, the debugging features, and the control click feature when you click on a dependency or linked file it will take you to that file. It was great.

            PhpStorm is kind of slow, I found that Prettier was taking a long time to format my code, and it just was lagging a lot so I was looking for alternatives. After watching some more tutorial videos I noticed that everyone was using Visual Studio Code. So I gave it a go, and its amazing.

            It has support for everything I need with the plugins and the integration with Git is amazing. The speed of this IDE is blazing fast, and I wouldn't go back to using PhpStorm anymore. I highly recommend giving Visual Studio Code a try!

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            Sublime Text

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            PROS OF SUBLIME TEXT
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              Lightweight
            • 652
              Plugins
            • 640
              Super fast
            • 468
              Great code editor
            • 442
              Cross platform
            • 279
              Nice UI
            • 259
              Unlimited trial
            • 154
              Cmd + d is the best command ever
            • 92
              Great community
            • 46
              Package control, modules
            • 26
              Mac OS X support
            • 23
              Easy to get started with
            • 22
              Monokai
            • 21
              Built in Python
            • 21
              Everything you need without the bloat
            • 18
              Easy
            • 14
              Speed
            • 12
              Session & edit resuming
            • 10
              Package Control
            • 9
              Well Designed
            • 8
              Multiple selections
            • 7
              ALT + CMD + DOWN is the best command ever
            • 7
              Nice
            • 7
              Fast, simple and lightweight
            • 5
              It's easy to use, beautiful, simple, and plugins rule
            • 5
              So futuristic and convenient
            • 5
              ALT + F3 the best command ever
            • 5
              Great
            • 4
              Find anything fast within entire project
            • 4
              Easy to use
            • 4
              Free
            • 4
              Simple and clean design
            • 3
              Hackable
            • 3
              Pretty
            • 3
              UI + plugins
            • 3
              Sublime Merge (Git Integration)
            • 2
              Totally customizable
            • 2
              Color schemes and cmd+d
            • 2
              Material theme best theme forever
            • 0
              Const
            CONS OF SUBLIME TEXT
            • 8
              Steep learning curve
            • 6
              Everything
            • 4
              Doesn't act like a Mac app
            • 4
              Flexibility to move file
            • 3
              Number of plugins doing the same thing
            • 2
              Not open sourced
            • 2
              Don't have flutter integration
            • 2
              Forces you to buy license

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            Johnny Bell

            I've been in the #frontend game for about 7 years now. I started coding in Sublime Text because all of the tutorials I was doing back then everyone was using it. I found the speed amazing compared to some other tools at the time. I kept using Sublime Text for about 4-5 years.

            I find Sublime Text lacks some functionality, after all it is just a text editor rather than a full fledged IDE. I finally converted over to PhpStorm as I was working with Magento and Magento as you know is mainly #PHP based.

            This was amazing all the features in PhpStorm I loved, the debugging features, and the control click feature when you click on a dependency or linked file it will take you to that file. It was great.

            PhpStorm is kind of slow, I found that Prettier was taking a long time to format my code, and it just was lagging a lot so I was looking for alternatives. After watching some more tutorial videos I noticed that everyone was using Visual Studio Code. So I gave it a go, and its amazing.

            It has support for everything I need with the plugins and the integration with Git is amazing. The speed of this IDE is blazing fast, and I wouldn't go back to using PhpStorm anymore. I highly recommend giving Visual Studio Code a try!

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            Labinator Team

            At labinator.com, we use HTML5, CSS 3, Sass, Vanilla.JS and PHP when building our premium WordPress themes and plugins. When writing our codes, we use Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code depending on the project. We run Manjaro and Debian operating systems in our office. Manjaro is a great desktop operating system for all range of tasks while Debian is a solid choice for servers.

            WordPress became a very popular choice when it comes to content management systems and building websites. It is easy to learn and has a great community behind it. The high number of plugins as well that are available for WordPress allows any user to customize it depending on his/her needs.

            For development, HTML5 with Sass is our go-to choice when building our themes.

            Main Advantages Of Sass:

            • It's CSS syntax friendly
            • It offers variables
            • It uses a nested syntax
            • It includes mixins
            • Great community and online support.
            • Great documentation that is easy to read and follow.

            As for PHP, we always thrive to use PHP 7.3+. After the introduction of PHP 7, the WordPress development process became more stable and reliable than before. If you a developer considering PHP 7.3+ for your project, it would be good to note the following benefits.

            The Benefits Of Using PHP:

            • Open Source.
            • Highly Extendible.
            • Easy to learn and read.
            • Platform independent.
            • Compatible with APACHE.
            • Low development and maintenance cost.
            • Great community and support.
            • Detailed documentation that has everything you need!

            Why PHP 7.3+?

            • Flexible Heredoc & Nowdoc Syntaxes - Two key methods for defining strings within PHP. They also became easier to read and more reliable.
            • A good boost in performance speed which is extremely important when it comes to WordPress development.
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            Vim logo

            Vim

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            PROS OF VIM
            • 347
              Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
            • 327
              Fast
            • 312
              Highly configurable
            • 297
              Less mouse dependence
            • 247
              Lightweight
            • 145
              Speed
            • 100
              Plugins
            • 97
              Hardcore
            • 82
              It's for pros
            • 65
              Vertically split windows
            • 30
              Open-source
            • 25
              Modal editing
            • 22
              No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
            • 21
              It stood the Test of Time
            • 16
              Unicode
            • 13
              VimPlugins
            • 13
              Everything is on the keyboard
            • 13
              Stick with terminal
            • 12
              Dotfiles
            • 11
              Flexible Indenting
            • 10
              Hands stay on the keyboard
            • 10
              Efficient and powerful
            • 10
              Programmable
            • 9
              Everywhere
            • 9
              Large number of Shortcuts
            • 8
              Unmatched productivity
            • 8
              A chainsaw for text editing
            • 7
              Makes you a true bearded developer
            • 7
              Super fast
            • 7
              Developer speed
            • 7
              Because its not Emacs
            • 7
              Modal editing changes everything
            • 6
              Themes
            • 6
              You cannot exit
            • 5
              Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
            • 5
              EasyMotion
            • 5
              Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
            • 5
              Habit
            • 5
              Intergrated into most editors
            • 5
              Shortcuts
            • 5
              Great on large text files
            • 5
              Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
            • 4
              Intuitive, once mastered
            • 4
              Perfect command line editor
            • 1
              Not MicroSoft
            CONS OF VIM
            • 8
              Ugly UI
            • 5
              Hard to learn

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            Jerome Dalbert
            Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare · | 13 upvotes · 762.4K views

            I liked Sublime Text for its speed, simplicity and keyboard shortcuts which synergize well when working on scripting languages like Ruby and JavaScript. I extended the editor with custom Python scripts that improved keyboard navigability such as autofocusing the sidebar when no files are open, or changing tab closing behavior.

            But customization can only get you so far, and there were little things that I still had to use the mouse for, such as scrolling, repositioning lines on the screen, selecting the line number of a failing test stack trace from a separate plugin pane, etc. After 3 years of wearily moving my arm and hand to perform the same repetitive tasks, I decided to switch to Vim for 3 reasons:

            • your fingers literally don’t ever need to leave the keyboard home row (I had to remap the escape key though)
            • it is a reliable tool that has been around for more than 30 years and will still be around for the next 30 years
            • I wanted to "look like a hacker" by doing everything inside my terminal and by becoming a better Unix citizen

            The learning curve is very steep and it took me a year to master it, but investing time to be truly comfortable with my #TextEditor was more than worth it. To me, Vim comes close to being the perfect editor and I probably won’t need to switch ever again. It feels good to ignore new editors that come out every few years, like Atom and Visual Studio Code.

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            Denys
            Software engineer at Typeform · | 13 upvotes · 560.8K views
            • Go because it's easy and simple, facilitates collaboration , and also it's fast, scalable, powerful.
            • Visual Studio Code because it has one of the most sophisticated Go language support plugins.
            • Vim because it's Vim
            • Git because it's Git
            • Docker and Docker Compose because it's quick and easy to have reproducible builds/tests with them
            • Arch Linux because Docker for Mac/Win is a disaster for the human nervous system, and Arch is the coolest Linux distro so far
            • Stack Overflow because of Copy-Paste Driven Development
            • JavaScript and Python when a something needs to be coded for yesterday
            • PhpStorm because it saves me like 300 "Ctrl+F" key strokes a minute
            • cURL because terminal all the way
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            Notepad++

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            PROS OF NOTEPAD++
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              Syntax for all languages that i use
            • 59
              Tabbed ui
            • 56
              Great code editor
            • 53
              Fast and lightweight
            • 38
              Plugins
            • 28
              Nice GUI
            • 26
              Regex & Special Character Search & Replace
            • 16
              Fast startup
            • 9
              Application is free, and plugins are too
            • 9
              Themes
            • 6
              Free
            • 4
              Very Lightweight
            • 3
              100% Free
            • 2
              Column selection
            • 1
              Awesome autocomplete
            • 1
              Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)
            • 1
              Mksahammed1@gmail.com
            • 1
              Cos it's seck
            • 1
              Nice gui. are you kidding me?
            • 1
              Open Sourced
            CONS OF NOTEPAD++
            • 3
              No default plugin manager
            • 2
              Can't install more advanced packets

            related Notepad++ posts

            Hey there, I am using Visual Studio for C++ and Notepad++ for web development. Should I switch to Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code for web development?

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            Gustavo Muñoz
            Senior Software Engineer at JOOR · | 3 upvotes · 264K views

            I have chosen Visual Studio Code after testing a lot of other editors like Atom, Sublime Text (with legal license), Vim or even Notepad++ because it is the sum of all their virtues and none of their defects. It's fast, it has all the tools and plugins I need to work, and it's pretty and very good optimized. It has what I need to work and nothing more. And the main plugins works like a charm. Developing for React or Flutter is amazing. Even the TypeScript plugin works great. I like how IntelliSense works, and all the extra tools to code remotely using #ssh, access #RESTfulAPI or event manage projects or collaborating remotely. Thanks #Microsoft for Visual Studio Code.

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            Atom

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            PROS OF ATOM
            • 529
              Free
            • 448
              Open source
            • 343
              Modular design
            • 321
              Hackable
            • 316
              Beautiful UI
            • 170
              Github integration
            • 147
              Backed by github
            • 119
              Built with node.js
            • 113
              Web native
            • 107
              Community
            • 35
              Packages
            • 18
              Cross platform
            • 5
              TypeScript editor
            • 5
              Nice UI
            • 5
              Multicursor support
            • 3
              Snippets
            • 3
              Simple but powerful
            • 3
              Open source, lots of packages, and so configurable
            • 3
              cli start
            • 3
              Chrome Inspector works IN EDITOR
            • 2
              Awesome
            • 2
              Smart TypeScript code completion
            • 2
              Well documented
            • 2
              It's powerful
            • 2
              Code readability
            • 1
              works with GitLab
            • 1
              User friendly
            • 1
              full support
            • 1
              vim support
            • 1
              Split-Tab Layout
            • 1
              "Free", "Hackable", "Open Source", The Awesomness
            • 1
              Apm publish minor
            • 1
              Hackable and Open Source
            • 1
              Consistent UI on all platforms
            • 0
              Publish
            CONS OF ATOM
            • 19
              Slow with large files
            • 7
              Slow startup
            • 2
              Most of the time packages are hard to find.
            • 1
              No longer maintained
            • 1
              Cannot Run code with F5
            • 1
              Can be easily Modified

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            Jerome Dalbert
            Principal Backend Software Engineer at StackShare · | 13 upvotes · 762.4K views

            I liked Sublime Text for its speed, simplicity and keyboard shortcuts which synergize well when working on scripting languages like Ruby and JavaScript. I extended the editor with custom Python scripts that improved keyboard navigability such as autofocusing the sidebar when no files are open, or changing tab closing behavior.

            But customization can only get you so far, and there were little things that I still had to use the mouse for, such as scrolling, repositioning lines on the screen, selecting the line number of a failing test stack trace from a separate plugin pane, etc. After 3 years of wearily moving my arm and hand to perform the same repetitive tasks, I decided to switch to Vim for 3 reasons:

            • your fingers literally don’t ever need to leave the keyboard home row (I had to remap the escape key though)
            • it is a reliable tool that has been around for more than 30 years and will still be around for the next 30 years
            • I wanted to "look like a hacker" by doing everything inside my terminal and by becoming a better Unix citizen

            The learning curve is very steep and it took me a year to master it, but investing time to be truly comfortable with my #TextEditor was more than worth it. To me, Vim comes close to being the perfect editor and I probably won’t need to switch ever again. It feels good to ignore new editors that come out every few years, like Atom and Visual Studio Code.

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            Julian Sanchez
            Lead Developer at Chore Champion · | 9 upvotes · 605.7K views

            We use Visual Studio Code because it allows us to easily and quickly integrate with Git, much like Sublime Merge ,but it is integrated into the IDE. Another cool part about VS Code is the ability collaborate with each other with Visual Studio Live Share which allows our whole team to get more done together. It brings the convenience of the Google Suite to programming, offering something that works more smoothly than anything found on Atom or Sublime Text

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