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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Languages Supported

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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jamal k.

Customer Support Executive

Outsourcing/Offshoring

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2021

"a good platform to use for coding or programming in different languages and for offline use"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

You can use and work in many languages, and it's light and easy to use. It also supports many extensions and programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing as I can say I would dislike. But sometimes, it sticks with errors and not able to get where the error is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Suppose you are looking for an IDE or offline code editor for different languages. VS code is the best choice you would have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are building web apps on this platform, and we are enjoying using them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/23/2021

"Best editor for programming"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Huge market of plugin and themes is the best part of visual studio code . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Use lot of resources during java server simulation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Er R S.

Managing Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/12/2021

"One IDE for every computer programming language"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It has auto syntex correct tool which helps to avoid syntex error and east to use and processing is too fast as compare to other id.Specially if you are working on dufferent programing language so you don't have need to change other ide's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing at all which can be highlight as major part Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/16/2021

""Best Source Code Editor to workOn""

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

- Git support directly from Vscode UI

- Extension like IntelliSense, Prettier, Eslint helps a lot for maintaining coding standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes terminal inside Vscode gets stuck and needs to restart Vscode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adrian A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2020

"The best solution for code development (and more!)"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I have tested different solutions and VS code is the most complete, tunable solution I ever tried. It is lightweight (so I can run in a mid-range laptop of ten years ago), it is powerful, and it is easy to manage. The code development of the tool is also very satisfying, with complete explanations (even with GIF) of the changes introduced in the new versions. It is the best product by Microsoft, by far... And it is even open-source!

The choice of extensions is also very helpful. You can customize every little detail of the interface, and you can have in the same editor latex files (and compile them, and having synctex to have the pdf synced with the source file), matlab, python... and so on1 You can even work with Jupyter notebooks, and the extension you have for Julia language is quite good. From my point of view, it is the new standard in these kinds of tools (even better than Sublime, that is not for free). The integration with the terminal is also very convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The product is very good, I don't dislike anything at all. Maybe the development of the remote extension is taking a while (and while they are on it, you have partial solutions that more or less work, but they are not full functional yet). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Try Atom and Sublime and get the one that you see fit... but I tried all of them and this one seems to be the killer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I code MATLAB, python, latex files... from a professional perspective. I didn't use it for web development but it also seems very complete for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2021

"VS Code - Started beating Sublime for my day to day text editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Intellisense, plugins, fluid design. Ease of Use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Java Plug-in Settings are not very friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/31/2021

"Must Have IDE in developers machine"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Lightweight supports multiple languages, Developer friendly, ease of use, easy integration with other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing as such which I don't like about this tool, in love with this IDE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian S.

Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer - Test

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/11/2021

"Amazing IDE with a small footprint"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like that the application isn't a memory hog. It allows specific customization through plugins in the Marketplace (which is free). Code formatting is simple with plugins like Prettier. There's a lot of color themes from the getgo, or you can download more. It offers language support for every language I could consider using. It also works great with test runners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I dislike that I didn't know about this sooner. I used to pay a yearly fee to use another competitor's (excellent) web development application. Once I discovered VSCode, I didn't go back.

Occasionally when I'm typing in HTML5/JS syntax, it will attempt to do an ES6 import without asking me and break my code. This isn't enough of a complaint to worry about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I work as a contributor, a manager, and as an adjunct college professor. It's awesome to be able to have default instructions for environment configuration that can apply in all of these areas. VSCode's free use and plugins allow for a professional development environment that works in any situation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/2/2021

"Best Integrated Development Environment"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

There are numerous features of Visual Studio Code Editor but best feature is the its extension of Live Server through which we can test our application at runtime and during writing of code & scripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The disliked feature of Visual Studio is that sometime it will show unexpected recommendations while writing code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Highly highly highly recommend other developers to use Visual Studio Code as Integrated Development Environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The problem of connecting all the programming language into one Integration Development Environment named as Visual Studio Code is tackled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal C.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/3/2021

"Best Code Editor for Developers"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VS code supports large number of languages and includes multiple extensions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

default terminal could be much better. Apart from this all is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

A better terminal would be nice. Also perfomance can be improved on Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am using VScode as my primary code editor. I am using it everyday to code. Can't imagine coding without VSCode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.