Why do developers use Visual Studio Code?

(I hope not offtop,since it relates to scripts)

Hello! I noticed that some developers use Visual Studio code, how is VSC better?

(This is really my whole question)

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What is visual studio code? Sorry I just don’t know

It’s just an IDE. Roblox scripts are not typically written on VS Code because they don’t support the roblox libraries.

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Other than that, some of us are not even Studio purists working on Roblox. I happened to transition to VS Code for some other things than Roblox.

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People will use an extension called Rojo and use Visual Studio Code or any IDE that you want. This will help you use external tools like selene, roblox LSP, moonwave (documentation) and many other helpful tools that you might not have in roblox studio.

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I think in RDC they talked about accepting more programming programs i dont remember

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I dont think marking dodle as a solution is correct as his statement is plain wrong and dangerously misleading at best. I explain more in a reply to him.

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I dont know what source you list here but this is just a wrong statement. As someone who has been on the platform for a while I can assure you a ton of games use VSCode from experience. Your statement about them not supporting roblox libraries is just false. Roblox libraries are just luau code which can be ported into vscode super easily and I would argue is even easier to manage on vscode due to tooling and package managers such as Wally.

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