With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

Of course, it's described as a "lightweight" version because an online VS Code can't yet match the desktop version in functionality. For example, there's no internal debugging or terminal with VS Code ...

These surprising Visual Studio Code extensions aren't just for writing and editing code—though they'll also help you do that.