Visual Studio Code Reviews & Product Details

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free, lightweight, and powerful source code editor developed by Microsoft, compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. It offers a rich set of features, including debugging support, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and built-in Git integration. Users can customize the editor by changing themes, keyboard shortcuts, and preferences, as well as by installing extensions to enhance functionality. VS Code supports a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, making it a versatile tool for developers. Key Features and Functionality: - Debugging: Built-in debugger with support for various programming languages, allowing developers to set breakpoints, inspect variables, and step through code. - Syntax Highlighting and IntelliSense: Provides syntax highlighting and intelligent code completion for numerous languages, enhancing code readability and productivity. - Integrated Git Control: Seamless Git integration enables users to manage version control directly within the editor. - Extensions and Customization: A vast marketplace of extensions allows users to add new languages, debuggers, and tools, tailoring the editor to their specific needs. - Integrated Terminal: Built-in terminal supports various shells, enabling command-line operations without leaving the editor. Primary Value and User Solutions: Visual Studio Code streamlines the development process by combining a robust set of features with a user-friendly interface. Its cross-platform compatibility and extensive extension ecosystem cater to a diverse developer community, supporting a wide array of programming languages and frameworks. By integrating essential tools like debugging, version control, and terminal access into a single environment, VS Code enhances productivity and efficiency, reducing the need to switch between multiple applications. Its customizable nature allows developers to tailor the editor to their workflows, addressing the unique challenges they face in software development.

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Microsoft

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English

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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Rajnesh R.

System Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2022

"Best Free Code Editor."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

1. Free to use.

2. The vast number of plugins.

3. Simple and rich user interface.

4. Easy to use.

5. In-app tutorials make it easy to use.

6. Lightweight and used by most companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

1. Lacks sometimes if use more number of plugins in a single project.

2. No inbuilt support for different programming languages.

3. Dark mode can be improved a little bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Supreet K.

Content Writer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/19/2022

"Great features, below average looks"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Ability to customise looks of most parts of the app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Squared off and poorly implemented UI (from an authentic point of view) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deshan J.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/18/2021

"Most Versatile Code Editor, with minimum system resource usage"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VS Code is very lightweight. Currently, VS Code has many extensions in the marketplace, even for free, which will enhance the performance of VSCode, and, to be honest, VSCode provides almost all the features like Intellij, Visual Studio IDEs can provide. And especially, it offers support for nearly all programming languages,therfore offering much flexibility for the programmers.Also it has multi window capability,which can be used to view mutiple files side by side in the same screen.This makes the prgrammer very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The UI looks bit complicated for a first time users,as its hard to search for some options/tools or features right away.

Sometimes might get laggy or not responding if you are working with a large project, like .NET solution with multiple projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I recommend other users to use the extensions, which will make VCode x100 times powerful and also improve your overall experience with it, rather than using the by-default features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to handle small files, you do not need to open the whole project. In case if we know the exact file to make changes. We don't need to open the entire project; we can only open the required file and make changes quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Srishti A.

System Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/24/2021

"Best code editor for beginners as well as professionals!"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

1) Best thing about VS code is its UI. It is very user-friendly, and users can change themes according to their comfort.

2) It is suitable for almost all types of developers, whether solo developers or developers of a large team.

3) It gives us an option to customize fully according to our needs and comfort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

1) Sometimes, it can be slower and consume a lot of battery and storage.

2) It has a lot of extensions, but sometimes it becomes difficult to manage those extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Md Rifakat S.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/16/2022

"It's best Platform to write code VS is very smooth and Light its UI is very friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Its User Interface is very light & good. Overall for me its very light for all PC if some one have low end pc then they also use Visual studio codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It's font style is not much goods for me i think there we have an option to change font and some more customisation option required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Palak B.

Associate developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/7/2022

"Code management tool with amazing visualization."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Its Ui is the best thing as it also provides color differentiation for different keywords to visualize the code easily. I can also run commands on its terminal only and see the output on its console only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I have to add extensions and plugins to support other languages manually. I cannot club my projects inside VS code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/26/2022

"Microsoft's free IDE solution to the dev community"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I can't still comprehend the fact that vs code is free to use and is made by Microsoft. It's massive library/extension/package is just mind blowing. The regular updates which we get on to those extensions are just convenient. Even the git & terminal integration is so smooth and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It has very little downside to using it but still if I want to knitpick anything out of it that would be opening of multiple terminals if already one is open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2021

"Visual Studio Code : The Portable IDE with dark theme and colors with all advanced plugins"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The default dark color theme is one power-saving, nonglaring, and more extended working piece. You can work for hours without getting stressed with all color combinations for keywords and functions, and easy to scroll and load hefty files in a formatted /unformatted way. Well, this is just the beginning.

The significant advantage is it does not need installations, and you can unzip on a windows os machine and start working on the ide. It has a smaller memory footprint and is very dast to open and close. It is a very cool thing if you have a non-admin machine where installations need permissions which is time taking and process-oriented stuff. And you can add, remove the plugins as you go from one language to another, which just requires a simple restart.

The easy-to-use command editor helps faster path change, installation of packages, and other debug steps. Searching across the files is very easy, and it gives the exact navigation with proper highlights for errors. If your language of choice is angular or react or similar to SPA-based language, this IDE is a charm and first choice. Be it java or opening a formatted JSON file, this comes super handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The IDE is all more than my work expectations and technically does not have any drawbacks for developers. But some hiccups might come while git merges and git operations or, for that matter, lookups or typeaheads. Some of the plugins are not available, and it might be challenging to work around them. Local History or reverting the changes sometimes may not be that deep as expected. Since it's lightweight and handy, so many debug features might not be available and may not be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Since it's straightforward to start, which is download, unzip and start to use both on mac and windows so just try and feel the difference, and yes, with no cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it primarily for my angular-based UI projects and React-based applications. I also use it for monolithic projects having java as backend in STS and UI part opened in the visual studio code. They help me to keep the project independent of each other and thus build and deploy faster and easy and to add further ease to pinpoint the area of navigational error flow and data flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Glenn E.

It Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/29/2021

"Use VS Code for you next dev project"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Modular architecture. just install what you use, Available for all the major current OS's today. It supports all of the current popular languages. Doesnt have a large footprint. Probably the best free IDE available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Debugger... I spend most of my time in its big brother Visual Studio so I am spoiled with its debugger. It did take me a little bit to adapt to how it handles projects but no deal breakers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Being free suppport is limited but MS does have thier huge knowledge base though it can be cumbersome to navigate. Outstanding IDE for HTML, javascript and python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it as a HTML IDE and Pyhon primarily. I find it easer than using Visual Studio. I will develop layouts and themes with VS Code then pass the source code into VS for the project I am working on with the business logic code usually in .net. This may change with VS 2022 and its Hot Reload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhruv K.

Software Programmer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"Review of Visual Studio Code after using it for 6 months"

3/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best thing I like about Visual Studio Code is its auto-save function. It has a very clean and easy-to-use User Interface. It has awesome integration with Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It has high ram consumption at times. It takes a long time to boot the software, which feels frustrating at times. It does not support development for Mac/IOS. Its default shortcut keys are not too good.

Due to these reasons, I discontinued the use of Visual Studio Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I would not recommend VSC to C++ developers as it lacks a lot of functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Visual Studio Code as a text editor for the C++ programming language, but it lacks some functionalities, due to which I discontinued its use. I had used it for six months before discontinuing its use, and during that time, I performed 40-50 percent of my C++ coding on VSC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.