Visual Studio Code Reviews & Product Details

It's simple enough to be a quick text editor that doesn't feel bloated out of the box, where you're free to add your own needed functionality with extensions. But even over time, it doesn't seem to get bloated even with extensions. The fact it operates mainly with extensions means over time the open source community can make it do almost anything. With so many other developers using it because of its versatility, it's easy to find other developers who have similar workflows that you can instantly be productive working alongside. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of its reliance on extensions, there is some complexity involved in setting it up to do what you want until you understand the extension system. Additionally, some extensions advertise being production ready the moment you find them, but then they end up not feeling like a smooth experience.

For example, right now, out of the box you get a great JavaScript and TypeScript experience and there's a Microsoft-supported extension for C# that also provides a great experience. In contrast, the extensions for Ruby and Go/Golang, which are not supported by Microsoft, feel much less polished as of the moment I write this review. It's up to the community over time to improve them. Nevertheless, I believe this is a superior model of building an IDE and I wouldn't have it any other way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like themes, debugging option, multi terminal option and lots of apps to download. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is evolving, I know it supports Java but it needs improvement there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visual Studio Code is an open source and blazing fast IDE for development. You can add variety of plugins according to your needs to speed up your development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It updates very frequently, Though it provides additional features but updating it becomes an overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This tool is very easy to use and powerful. You have all you need to code in almost all programming languages you need. The ability to install plug ins and customize your environment is awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The version in windows has some lack of customization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VS Code is very light and user-friendly, compatible with all Operative Systems in the market and it offers tuns of extensions of various programming languages (including some with auto complete). With Git integration, VS Code works really good when we want to use version control on our projects. Microsoft is making a real good job with Visual Studio Code and is constantly updating this software for better features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I feel that it doesn't handle well with large files and as consequence it slows down my workflow for sometimes. It should detect witch programming language we are using when we open a new file and hask if we want to install the respective extension if we don't already have it intalled. VS Code as it's not an IDE, lacks most features of a full IDE suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VS Code is a light weight software that supports mainly all programming languages and offers a huge library of extensions that would improve your developing experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The black interface is not well designed, it might lacks from more colors and more on the navigation tab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent integration with our tech stack (C++14/17, Clang, Python). Good range of tools. Easy to set up and use as a beginner, but robust and customizable for experienced users. Also an excellent text editor for the markup and textual files our non-programming content development department needs to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reliance on third-party extensions can make the availability or robustness of some features and tools variable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that Microsoft provides a free IDE for use for people who need to develop. It offers free plug ins that makes developing a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that there aren’t as many plug ins as it’s competitors (atom and vim) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using VS Code for React application development. We almost change nothing to the base setting of the application, everything was already ready-to-start once installed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Web debugging has it flaws which make it better to use Chrome's built-in debugger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very compatible with all the file formats also it's have very organised project structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some time it's take lots of time to open particular file format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.