Visual Studio Code is now in snap format

The tender romance between Microsoft and Canonical continues. If last week we knew about the arrival of Ubuntu to the Microsoft Store, today we learned that Canonical has worked on creating Visual Studio Code in snap format, reaching more platforms and teams thanks to this format.

Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft code editor that was released in 2015. One of the surprises of the launch of this code editor was the arrival of Ubuntu and other Gnu / Linux distributions, something that surprised many users and that would be the first of many other applications that came to Ubuntu.

Two years after its launch, Visual Studio Code has become the most popular code editor of the moment. It has more than 3.000 official extensions that help us to give more functionality and customization to this code editor. Visual Studio Code is written in Electron, which allows the installation of the application on Gnu / Linux distributions.

Also has Git integration, a feature that helps developers a lot because from the application they can upload their code to free repositories such as Github. The weight and resource consumption of Visual Studio Code is barely minimal, which also makes it work on platforms with few resources such as Raspberry Pi. And now, with the snap package, it can be installed on IoT devices or any computer with few resources that supports snap packages.

To install Visual Studio Code we can do them in three ways:

1. Download the deb package from the official website and install it on our computer.
2. Use the meta package Free Make. This metapackage is a wizard that helps us install code editors, IDE's, etc… to be able to program and develop applications.
3. Installing through the snap package, for which we open the terminal and write the following: snap install –classic vscode.

With these methods we can install Visual Studio Code on any computer with Ubuntu. Personally I would lean towards the last method because it is also simple, it offers us a security that the other methods do not offer, a security and stability that many users look for.