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GNU Emacs vs Visual Studio Code
A side-by-side comparison of GNU Emacs and Visual Studio Code.
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| Description | Extensible, self-documenting text editor from the GNU Project | Free, extensible code editor from Microsoft for most languages |
| Pricing | FreeOpen source(GPL-3.0-or-later) | FreeOpen source(MIT) |
| Developer | GNU Project | Microsoft |
| Ratings | — | 193.6Kstars |
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