Visual Studio Code, commonly named VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft that can be used with various programming languages, Scilab has its own extension developed by the Numerical Computation Team at Dassault Systèmes.
Let’s take a tour of available features
Writing Script
- Syntax highlighting
- Code completion
- Integrated documentation
Debugging
- Step by step execution
- Breakpoints
- Variable browsing and watching
- Call stack
- Debug console
How to use it?
First, you will have to install:
- Scilab 2025.0.0
- Visual Studio Code
- “Scilab Language Support” extension from VS Code Marketplace (or directly from Visual Studio Code extensions panel):
Then, read getting started instructions.
Don’t hesitate to share your feedback in the dedicated category.
We wish you happy coding using the Scilab VS Code extension!