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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

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Users consistently praise Visual Studio Code for its lightweight performance and extensive customization options, which allow for a tailored coding experience across various programming languages. The built-in Git integration and IntelliSense features enhance productivity, making it a preferred choice for many developers. However, some users note that performance can decline when too many extensions are installed.

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SRIJAN C.
SC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Microsoft visual Studio Code The best Platform for All The Future Developers in Current Generation"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The Best things about Visual Studio Code is that it has an Integrated Command Line Interface, for web Developers, it has Emmet Abbreviation Text and Html tags, Eslint which allows you to detect error and suggest suggestions on debugging, prettier which has opinionated code-formatter, Multi Cursor shortcuts, Text wrapping features and execute and debug of javascript program files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes it fails to automatically detect the programming languages, integrated command-line interface sometimes undergoes bugged or unresponsive, due to downloading of multiple plugins will make the software, even more, heavier to load into low specification laptops, it also degrades the battery quickly as it is heavy multi-processing application so plugin the laptop charger during usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Visual Studio Code is My Go-To When I am Developing"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

There are quite a few things I like about Visual Studio Code. For starters, the interface. I have used a lot of Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tools, but this one is very easy to use compared to most. I also like that there are just a ton of plugins and extensions to go even further with whatever it is that you are doing. Some of these extensions include version control with Git, auto complete with a wide variety of languages being supported, and even debugger tools (which of course also comes in various languages to support whatever kind of project you may be building). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I do not like that Microsoft owns it! :) I mean, I have nothing against Microsoft at all, I just wish a cool open source tool just like this existed. There are others out there, but they are just not as good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abid Ali  A.
AA
Data Scientist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best tool for Data Scientists"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Easy integration, Fast loading, and complete ecosystem for developing data science applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Jupyter notebook is relatively slow to load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DEBADUTTA B.
DB
Student
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best code editor for every developer and every platform"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VS code is the best code editor on the planet. I like that a terminal is embedded in it and you can instantiate n number of terminal. There is a huge community and extensions available for code formatting, live server, icons, file types , code snippets. Live server is a great feature for html,css, javascript developement. I like the intelisense feature. I can develop C,C++,C#, Java,NodeJS, ,Typescript, Javascript,HTML, CSS,Python and much more. It also provides debugging the code. File management is good. It is cross platform editor and open source. CLI is great in VS Code. It has many themes and you can also create your own theme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Code debugging is not great and facilities are not that convenient. Boot time is slow. It consumes more RAM as it is a electron based app not proper desktop app. sometimes terminal gets bugged. built in short cut is useless you have to configure on your own. Same project can't be open in two different windows. Tabs can't be pinned. External plugins are a bit buggy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best windows Optimized IDE"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio code is free of cost.

Large variety of 3rd party plugins are available which makes visual studio smart and lite IDE (Integrated development environment).

GIT integration make all your code to sync on cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Auto code complete feature is not available.

IDE don't support debugging of code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
IB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Most used open source editor"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Its open source, fast and lots of extensions are available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There is nothing i dislike about this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development
UP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"is very easy and fast work great for javascripts"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

the compatibility with javascript and the package used by it is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

nothing is a great tool, and super fast; I can't complain because it is free and work with different Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazing Visual Studio Code"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Loading faster

Have a lot of features and plugins and support most languages

amazing and faster shortcuts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Shortcut for save all is not working by default and needs some configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"cross platform for multiple languages"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It's best part starts from it's cross language editor with some good features to be used at times and colour coding that helps to locate different functions and tags easily. Then it has some predefined functions to helps us develop some good quality optimised codes easily. It has an integrated output console with the access of shell, command prompt, terminal and many more. It had it's own library of functionality to be downloadable according to the user requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Apart of all the cool stuffs and a lot of tools and features it has some obligations while writing code at it's editor, sometimes it stops responsible while working with kloc like to use document format on large files. Also it has shells, cmd, terminal and many more features but that too are not optimised which raises compatibility issues while codes execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Developer's best mate"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The ease of auto-completing, loops, common syntaxes helps focus on the problem statement immensely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The frequency of updates should be kept once a month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

13 months

Average Discount

19%

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