In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey last year, Visual Studio was named the second most popular integrated development environment (IDE) used by programmers to create software.

Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE is continuing to track the extension model introduced with the company's open source Visual Studio Code editor, most recently adding support for debug adapters.

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Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.

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Microsoft's Visual Studio overtook Eclipse to reign supreme atop the IDE popularity list maintained by the PYPL Index, but the IntelliJ offering is showing signs of catching up with impressive growth.