code-server runs Visual Studio Code in your browser, providing a remote development environment you can self-host on a VM or container and access from any device.
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2 self-hosted Visual Studio Code alternatives
Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform source-code editor with desktop and web versions. It provides syntax highlighting, debugging, Git integration, extensions ecosystem, and integrated AI coding assistants and agent features (e.g., Copilot).
Alternatives to Visual Studio Code
RStudio Server provides the RStudio IDE in a web browser for multi-user R and Python development, including editing, plotting, debugging, and project management.
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What replacing Visual Studio Code actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 2 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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