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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Shubham S.

Consultant

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/5/2019

"VSCode, most popular editor among developer."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VSCode is minimal yet super powerful and free and open source. The user interface is good as each tab in it is useful.

1. File management :- Work space management is quite easy, you can even set a separate setting for work space and user space. Which means if any specific work space related feature you require which you don't want other projects (work space) gets affected then you do those kind of setting in work-space setting.

2. In build Git integration so that you don't have to integrate any library or package to do so.

3. Debugging in VSCode is very easy and yet complex in stating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

VSCode don't provide feature of remote debugging, which sometime is great help. VSCode feels sometime heavier compare to other text editors like Notepad++.As it is integrated with large number of plugins it takes time to load but after once started it feels normal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

As per the Slack survey 2018, VSCode is the most popular and highly recommended among developers. by this you can get the idea how amazing VSCode is. I high recommend anyone from beginner to professional that VSCode will definately meet there requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Web development, debugging, managing work space structure, integration to github and much more nothing beats VSCode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason G.

Local Application Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/21/2019

"Full Stack Development with Visual Code Studio"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I love Visual code studio because it has extensions that are developed by the community. From a full Stack Developer, I can install snippets for Javascript, React, and Node Js to make prototyping applications alot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I dislike that, if you have too many extensions running at the same time. It could cause the extension host to restart or crash. Which means you'll have to close out of your workspace and restart it all over again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I would love to see Visual Code studio adopt some of the Hot Keys compared to it's competitors Sublime and Atom. It would make development more comfortable for people switching between different IDE's. 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 I am able to rapidly prototype applications for our field techs to work with on the job. Visual Code makes it easy to push updates to our repo and work on new applications for our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt L.

VP of Technology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/19/2019

"A lightweight test powerful and versatile IDE"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Built on top of V8, it launches fast and is able to take advantage of an engine that is constantly being optimized by google.

The concept of 'empty' to start, then you pick the extensions you actually need make for a very fast editor. And the open source, JS extensions mean they are easy to add, so there is a large library of them for whatever need you have. The hot-key navigations feel very fast and intuitive.

Overall, I feel my development speed has improved just by switching to this IDE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Has some shortcomings with our backend language (C#), seems to link things together a bit slower, but this is likely an issue with the Omnisharp engine instead of VS Code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Test it out with a few pilot developers first, so see if it has extensions for everything you need.

Take advantage of their tasks.json functionally to control/customize build processes and other automations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Faster development, standardized development by forcing all developers to use the same .code-workspace setup.

We are also able to leverage the underlying Monaco editor for loading a powerful, on web page, text editor tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddharth B.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/22/2020

"VS Code and benefits"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The coding flexibilities it provides to ease the work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The third party reporting tool is not compatible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew J.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/21/2020

"Best Editor in Years"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like the plugin repository and intellisense for every language that I use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The overall size of the program and the dependency of Node JS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miranda L.

Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/25/2019

"Excellent source code editor and debugger"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

This IDE offers me many tools for application development, it has excellent auto-completion and features a dark interface, it is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac. What I like most about this IDE is that it supports many programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

One of its disadvantages is that it consumes a large amount of RAM, and personalized configurations are also difficult to perform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you are a programmer and are looking for tools to develop your software or applications, Visual Studio Code will offer you very good and completely free options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In the development office, we use this development environment because it has excellent integrations for teamwork, and also because it is free and can be installed on almost any operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh A.

Senior Member Technical - Product Development

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/22/2019

"The Best Open Source and Free Ware IDE from Microsoft "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code Is one of the Best open source i have ever used its a great tool for developing , debugging applications i have been using vs code for developing Ui applications with java script and also python applications, it as one of the best debugging tools for debugging Python scripts.

Its vast extensions that are available in the marketplace developed by fellow developers makes vs codes a king in IDE's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Honestly their is nothing which i dislike about vs code. Its the best opensource IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you are considering for an IDE which is most powerful for developing application just go for VS code as it is the best IDE available in market today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Vs code helps me in developing day to day applications it always impresses me with great lintel sense and auto suggestion with inbuilt support for most of the programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabike R.

Software Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/8/2019

"Awesome tole for developing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

We can connect wit git and commit the code in this application. And we can use some extensions for addditional features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

While connecting with git we can't have to push the code into repo we can only commit the code. For pushing into repo we have to open terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

U guys need to implement the feature to push our code like commit the code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This is light weight application. We having the debug option in visual stiodio code. That is main think in vs code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selena T.

Android Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/25/2019

"Quickly code and debug your code"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

This IDE offers me many tools for application development, has an excellent self-completion and has a dark interface, is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac, what I like most about this IDE is that it has support for many languages of programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

One of its disadvantages that consumes a large amount of ram memory, and custom configurations are difficult to perform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you are a programmer and you are looking for tools to develop your visual studio code software or applications, it will offer you very good and totally free options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In the development office we use this development environment because it has excellent integrations for teamwork, also because it is free and can be installed on almost any operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jesus C.

Software Support Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/27/2019

"It supports almost all kinds of code."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It is easy to install its interface is intuitive good workspace has code and label coloring.

I can write all kinds of source code from C # to php, also color the labels and warns us about closing tags.

It is multiplatform can be used both in window and linux.

supports add-ons I can add add-ons with new functions or capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

We would like pre compilations.

be able to graphically design forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

It is one of the most complete multiplatform multiple add-ons and a very professional interface for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being light and portable we can solve errors in c # without installing the complete IDE, so that it has become an important tool to correct errors and work at home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.