I recommend installing both VS Code and Sublime Text and also adding both of their command-line utilities, code and subl, to your path. There is no real downside to having both products installed.

While your plain text editor may have syntax highlighting—a feature that changes colors of the text based on what you type to make your code easier to read—this is just something you'll see in ...

Sublime Text. One of the more extensible editors is Sublime Text, with a Python-based extension API.You can use it write code in just about any language, and because it’s cross-platform, you can ...