Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Make VS Code Awesome
Make VS Code focused and beautiful. Be fast as hell in it.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Make VS Code Awesome launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Create VS Code Themes with Theme Studio!
2021 · themes.vscode.one · its alternatives →
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Hey show HN! This course came about as a result of wanting a more targeted way of practicing using new vim commands I wanted to pick up, rather than just trying to use them in my regular code editing sessions. When I would try to use new commands during code editing, my productivity took a hit because I was trying to do two different things at once: thinking about code vs practicing my muscle memory. So, I made a separate environment for practicing, one that had an interactive editor, progress tracking, and achievement goals to let me see which areas I should work on, like speed and…
2022 · vimified.com · its alternatives →
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Bullet▲240Hi HN, excited to be sharing this with you guys today. TL;DR: Bullet is a fast coding agent. At our company, we were burning hours waiting on agent runs. The models weren’t the problem. The agent loops around them were slow (unnecessary planning, oversized context, repeated searches, and serial tool calls). So we built Bullet as a passion project, the goal being to help you iterate faster, without giving up quality: - It automatically selects the model and reasoning level for each prompt. - It runs independent searches, reads, and commands in parallel. - It uses targeted code search instead…
Aug 2026 · codewithbullet.com · its alternatives →
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Codedamn Create▲194Build and sell interactive programming courses
2021 · codedamn.com · its alternatives →
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Create your own VS Code theme easily, within your browser
2021 · themes.vscode.one · its alternatives →
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Hey HN. We're Mus and Isaac - creators of LightLayer. We've been outputting a ton more code since using agentic dev tools. It's been great. But we're starting to see a new bottleneck emerge that's no longer writing the actual code: reviewing code. We’d love to hear from folks here if they’re feeling the inertia of code reviews a lot more these days with the surge in development velocity. For us, it was the reason we decided to pivot what we were working on before, and go full-time on building a workspace aimed at bringing the code review experience up to speed for the AI era. To be clear:…
2025 · lightlayer.dev · its alternatives →
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Code Blue▲159A carefully concocted dark theme for VS Code.
2018 · sujansundareswaran.com · its alternatives →
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How do you provide a single DX across multiple languages?
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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Collaborate on code & deploy instantly on Glitch from VSCode
2019 · blog.glitch.com · its alternatives →
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Instant time complexity, explanation, and documentation
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · visualprogramming.net · its alternatives →
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A curated list of high-quality codebases to read and study. Read more code! - CodeReaderMe/awesome-code-reading
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Why designers and dev co's need each other
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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All the best things about VS Code that nobody told you about
2018 · its alternatives →
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A hot new theme to spice up your workflow
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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A place to learn, inspire and share best coding practices
2023 · its alternatives →
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Code focused development. Redefined.
2015 · code.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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A theme that will brighten your env and not strain your eyes
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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