Why you should use VSCode
It is:
- Fast
- Light
- Extendable
- Configurable
- Easy to learn
- Keyboard centric
- Popular
Extensions
Extensions are a big part of any IDE, they let users add functionality to IDEs that the IDE's developers haven't.
VSCode without extensions is not very useful, it still is a good editor for plain text, but programming is hard. If you want to do Python development, you can search up "python" on the extension marketplace and install the Python Language Extension, and Python autocomplete will automatically work.
There are many extensions for VSCode, you can see the extensions I like in the Extensions page.
Popularity
VSCode is very popular, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022, VSCode is the most popular IDE with 52,523 votes (74% of responses).