Install Visual Studio VS Code on Mac using Brew

Homebrew (popularly known as the brew) is the most popular package manager for macOS.

If you are looking for ways to quickly install Microsoft Visual Studio Code (also known as vscode or vs code) you can make use of the --cask option to get it installed.

Install Visual Studio Code using Brew

% brew install --cask visual-studio-code

==> Downloading https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.72.2/darwin-arm64/stable
==> Downloading from https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/d045a5eda657f4d7b676dedbfa7aab8207f8a075/VSCode
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==> Installing Cask visual-studio-code
==> Moving App 'Visual Studio Code.app' to '/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app'
==> Linking Binary 'code' to '/opt/homebrew/bin/code'
🍺  visual-studio-code was successfully installed!

Once downloaded, you can run VS Code from the Applications folder, make use of the Spotlight Search, or simply use the Terminal with the open command as below.

% /Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app