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

Discussions

Visual Studio Code Community

Languages Supported

English

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sam jain (Student at JECRC University)

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/10/2022

"Visual Studio Code is used almost in every popular software organization for UI development"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio code is one of the best in market interfaces to code and develops node,npm, javascript, typescript, and PHP-based UI/UX (front-end) part of an application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio code needs more unique features which make the tasks of a developer easier. It has no distinctive features which the developer can use to ease one's experience of coding the UI of an application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul S.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/22/2021

"Best IDE Ever!"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

So light and flexible IDE.

I like the flexibility of VS Code as it can be configured with respect to any programming language and gives alot of helper extensions for helping in development, and managing it.

I like the Liveshare extension, intellisense for any language extensions, Vim extension, git, and many more.

Also the integrated terminal of VS code is amazing.

There are n number of extensions available for vs code and they all work in windows, max and linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There is nothing to dislike as now the support for JAVA has also arrived in vs code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Google top extensions to be used in vs code for your field.

And also, in CP, you can add snippets of code directly in the VS code which makes it easy for us to get a heads start for user input codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use VS code for Competitve Coding extension called "Competitive Programming Helper" which helps in getting the test cases in a single click from browser to the vs code and code.

It is also used for building flutter applications where you don't need the heavy android studio for coding the flutter app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

aqsa a.

Assistant electronics Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/9/2021

"VS code"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

we can write code for different coding languages just by adding libraries like for python language .py Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

we have to resave the, again and again, code to get updated output Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"The most flexible IDE"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I love how flexible and customizable Visual Studio Code is. The strong developer community contributed to many plugins to extend your IDE. There are tons of extensions to support different language syntaxes too. I also love its frequent update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The performance is still a bit slower compared to other IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chandler A.

Full Stack Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/19/2021

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"Great IDE Environment to develop with!"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I love visual Code Studio because it's very easy to jump into and universally used with most software developers. My favorite feature is the ability to add extensions and customize visual Code Studio to help make your job easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There is not much to dislike, except there are some arguments on which IDE is better. Overall Visual Code Studio is superior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you're looking for a great IDE for you and your team to use, I can highly recommend Visual Studio Code for how easy it is to jump into and write code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Visual Studio Code, the developers use it to develop and work out our programs updates. We do this by writing code to fix bugs or add new features. We have found Visual Studio Code to be very beneficial because we're able to add in extensions that make our job painless by auto completing code snippets or auto syntaxing coding elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tharsanan K.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/16/2021

"A great IDE for software development"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It's lightweight. Configuring the projects is very easy. There are a lot of plugins we can use. Built-in VCS is very helpful to work with Git and svn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I do not have any opposing thoughts on VS code. I use VS code primarily for javascript related development. It works well with javascript related projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/30/2021

"Best in class for programming."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

As per my usage

- Best IDE/Software for programmer

- Light weight

- Lot's of helpful extension

- Support almost all languages

- Great AI auto complete

- User interface is great. Lots of theming customisation available 😃 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

- In some cases AI auto complete stop working. Need to restart VSCode to get working back.

- Some extension will make system or vscod e freez.

- Setting shortcut might me more easy if have some gui instead of json file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/28/2021

"Very flexible editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The flexibility that the tool offers in terms of custom workflows; VS Code has many extensions for a lot of programming languages and tools, and it also provides a lot of configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I can't see any downside of using VS Code so far Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Look for extensions that can boost your workflows.

Set up projects (VS Code functionality) to better organize your work.

Read the docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has boosted my productivity regarding web development. Other main uses are for documentation (using many Markdown extensions), version management (the integration with Git is pretty cool), general editing of files, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kyle S.

UI Design Mentor

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/23/2021

"Basically the standard from frontend development"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VSC quickly became the standard for frontend development (and probably other areas as well). Very easy to use, relatively lightweight and the number of extensions really make this the leader. It works on all major platforms with excellent integration with Git, GraphQL etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Even though it's pretty lightweight, if you have too many editors open (like 5+) it can start to drag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2021

"The best coding environment"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The easiness to use and the broad support, where it is the most widely used environment; so it has a massive community which helps in creating a lot of valuable plugins, which also leads to the continuous support from the creator (Microsoft) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It sometimes feels that visual studio is heavy, where the use of some plugins would affect the responsiveness of the whole environment, and running multiple instances of the code editor would also lead to the unresponsiveness of your machine sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.