Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the Swiss Army knife for today’s computer programmers. This versatile text editor is packed with powerful features designed to supercharge your productivity. With a wide array of functionalities catering to all types of developers, it’s essential to know how to customize VS Code for optimal data science performance. Here’s how I set up mine:
1. Font and Typography
As a programmer, reading code whether it’s your own or someone else’s is 90% of the job. Having the right font that enhances the readability of your code can reduce the time it takes to understand it and improve overall productivity. Monospace fonts, which allocate the same amount of horizontal space for each character, are perfect for programming as they make it easy to align code.
VS Code supports font ligatures, special characters that combine multiple characters into a single glyph, which increases readability. For example, a font ligature can convert a != b to . My preferred font for this is JetBrains Mono, a free and open-source monospace font with ligature support.