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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Brian W.

Systems Administrator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/10/2021

"Complete editing experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Continuously evolving, full featured rpoduct Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Start up can be slow if there are a lot of plug ins configured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chitransh S.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/16/2021

"The complete editor solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The ease of use. Visual studio code is user friendly. Debugging the code is also pretty simple as it shows the runtime values for variables and expressions . The option to operate on multiple terminals for running the code and looking at the output is great. It also gives direct versioning status using the source control option which is useful for identifying the files with changes in them. The integration with third party extensions is also good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Debugging view could be improved a little by including some more features like enabling and disabling of all breakpoints together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akshay P.

Full Stack Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/23/2021

"Perfect Environment for development"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

One of the Best Tool for coding in any language

vsCode provide all kind of language support that you need

extensions can give major of the facilities that a developer need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes it crashes

sometime Memory consumption is very high Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"VS Code"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It is a lightweight editor with a lot of extensions which make my work easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Getting extensions to work - extensions' keyboard shortcuts are sometimes not working well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/1/2021

"Lightweight coding environment"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code has what I need to program in Dot Net Core and newer javascript libraries like React. It's got syntax highlighting, but it is also fast to load. I have no complaints about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing. It's a great tool to have, and I recommend it to any developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reshu J.

Application developer Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/4/2020

"Best IDE for developers to work on."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control system which I like the most as it helps us to easy pull and push our code. It includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript and JavaScript. It's a lightning fast source code editor and perfect for day to day use.

There are many plugins available to extend its functionality, one of them is "Git lens" which we can use to view commit changes at specific line /file for tracking purpose which reduces efforts to check the code commit in specific file history in any software tool (eg. dev azure).

It is easy to use Visual Studio Code and especially liked by many front-end developers. It has color theme, Source control management to see in which file you have changed and many other powerful features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

* In some cases, debugging makes a problem if works on different languages.

* Not helpful for apps that require windows authentication.

* Running multiple instances at a time can consume lot of memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Best IDE you can start work on. It supports Python, Angular, React etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Visual Studio code is fast and be used across many platforms. It also provides support for various programming languages.

It constantly being updated to add new features or fix bugs. There is a new release of visual studio code every month with new feature and changes. It provides supports for RTL languages which most of the IDE doesn't provides.

It is the best software that Microsoft has created because it has the speed of Sublime and power of webstorm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Diksha G.

Student

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/28/2021

"Great Code Editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I enjoy the liveshare feature the most because it makes group projects really fun and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I'm overall a fan of this product but I guess if one thing it could improve on is having more libraries and language specific debug features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/28/2021

"Where I start all my coding."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I love how simple and straightforward and easy VS Code is to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only thing I could think of that could improve is the actual visual look of the layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rishikesh M.

Member

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/3/2020

"The Complete IDE"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like how easily you can install this Software and customize the IDE. You can install all the extensions you need for development from the extension tab. Can be used with version control systems. You can easily set this as default and can integrate the IDE with your command-line interface. It has wide support across different platforms and environments. Syntax highlight is available for every programming language. Many different shortcuts are available to make the development easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I have been using this IDE for almost 2 years now and I do not have encounter any such thing that I can dislike about the software. But the IDE can drain your machine's battery quicker as compared to other IDE. You might have to plug in the adapter when you use the IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The community version is free of cost. Many add-ons and extensions are available for usage and to ease the development process which can be accessed from Microsoft Visual Studio Code Marketplace (free), where other developers and organizations create free to use extensions and add-ons with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code community which is the best part about the software. I personally use extensions for autocompletion, themes of IDE, auto rename tag, python, eslint, etc. I have been using this IDE for 2 years now. It is flexible and highly customizable and very easy to use. My entire team uses Microsoft Visual Studio Code, but every individual has their customized IDE. It also has Built-in dev tools and Native Git tools, terminal access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepak N.

Sr Staff Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/25/2019

"Nice cool freeware IDE for project development"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

1. Support for loads of languages like C, C++, VC++, Python, etc

2. Fully customizable in terms of compiler suites, development environment, skins, behavior

3. Lots of freely available and mature plugins to enable enterprise project code development such as git, jira, bitbucket, gerritt, gitlens

4. Smooth integration with software configuration and collaborative software development frameworks like git, jira, etc

5. Native support for enterprise software development tools specially Atlassian offerings for code, compile, and deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

1. Hogs compute and memory resources on the desktop / notebook like crazy

2. Large codebase crawl for symbols, reference updations, etc take a lot of time

3. Performance lag on non-Windows OSes specially some level of step-motherly attitude towards Linux! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Try this surprisingly nice gem of a free IDE from the Microsoft stable!

With a variety of them options like dark, bright, high and low contrast, and colors, it enables hard core programmers set up their IDE the way they want or prefer.

And coming from the Microsoft stable, it has surprisingly large range of support from MS typical offerings like Visual Studio projects all the way to esoteric languages like Perl, Erlang and the open source community favorites like Python, C, C++, Ruby and Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Using it as a primary IDE for code and project development

2. Using it as a nice visual, GUI-filled replacement for cscope, etc

3. Can handle trawling and referencing large code bases very fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.