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Best Visual Studio Code alternatives

5 tools that do what Visual Studio Code does, ranked by our overall review score.

Why are you switching?
  1. GitHub Copilot7.5An AI coding assistant that runs in most major IDEs and ties into GitHub
  2. IntelliJ IDEA7.4JetBrains' Java and Kotlin IDE, now a single product for Community and UltimateMore private than Visual Studio CodeOpen source
  3. Cursor7.4An AI-first code editor with agents that run locally or in the cloudMore private than Visual Studio Code
  4. Visual Studio7.3Microsoft's full IDE for .NET, C++ and games, available only on Windows
  5. Windsurf6.7An AI IDE, now called Devin Desktop, for managing local and cloud coding agents