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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Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/16/2019

"Lightweight text editor"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Best code editor experience . All the features in Visual Studio for text editing is available in Visual Studio Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Package installation process could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/17/2019

"Best code editor currently on the market"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

In general I feel that the plugin architecture, configuration files, are simple to use. It operates really smoothly with some types of plugins that slow down some of the other popular IDEs, it has a big ecosystem of plugin developers and users, and it has a great default setup of features out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Coming from VIM, I miss some of my VIM configuration, although I use a VIM plugin to be able to use some of the basic VIM movements keys and bindings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Supported by a large company, large ecosystem, performant file search and text search, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I wanted an editor that was easy to use out of the box where most of the necessary features didn't have as many performance considerations as VIM does. As I'm going up more of the engineering ladder, I want something that will update itself and give sane defaults out of the box as I have less time to tinker with my IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel A.

Consultant, R&D Product Testing

Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2019

"A little unfriendly at first, but great product"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I enjoy how there are several extensions supported by the public. Always easy to find extensions to make the experience better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

GUI is not intuitive, so it takes some time to get familiar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/3/2019

"Visual Studio Code Usage review "

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio code is one of the best IDEs that I have used so far.

It is powerful due to integration with different things.

Its one place to do everything - write code, build, deploy.

Its great that we can also create app-packages using Visual studio.

Integration with other devices and VMs is super cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The documentation on version upgrades is so poor that its really hard to what changed between versions and how to correct the same.

Visual studio can be very unreliable at times.

The support is really poor.

When working with different devices and VMs, the connection can get really bad and lost.

Visual studio can enter into states that requires restart often Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Its more powerful than many IDEs like VS code or Eclipse or anything.

But you have to prepared to deal with some of the slowness . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Code development, testing and deployment .

The benefits in terms of being efficient and create impact is amazing ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/26/2019

"Wonderful code editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is the best free code editor I've ever used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes debugging can be a little rough compared to Visual Studio, lack of support for edit and continue is frustrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you're looking for a free IDE, look no further. Cross platform and great multi-language support. Visual Studio Code pretty much does everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We currently use Visual Studio Code to develop our web applications, it does a great job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Juan Pablo G.

junior DevOps

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/9/2019

"excelent IDE for many languages "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like how easy is to manage a project and how fast it works in linux environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

In linux some times it crashed with out knowing why Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/3/2019

"Visual Studio Code Best IDE for Front end development"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

1. It has User friendly layout

2. Good interface

3. Easily customizable

4. Availability of a thousands of Extensions available in the VS Code Marketplace

5. It is open source

6. Visual Studio Code also has a built-in terminal/debugger that can run commands for your applications.

7. Visual Studio code is an overall sanctuary for the software/application developer

8. Visual Studio Code is fast and lightweight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing much except these(which is something anybody can just ignore for a open source IDE)

1. Search is little bit slow

2. It takes a little long to get launched

2. It lacks Code Profiling Tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I would recommend this IDE to everyone. This is open source and best among all. VS Code is a great pick for developers that need a functional and fully customizable tool without the cost of a full development environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have developed complete front end web applications using Visual Studio code. We have developed web applications in E-commerce and Health domain. Developed Ionic with Angular application too(both Web and Mobile applications) which generates android apk files and mac ipa files. User friendly layout makes it really fast to code. Easy availability of extensions makes it a comfortable IDE. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) relieves some of the daily organizational tasks when developing software, and also allows extensions that can greatly increase the success of building your application. VS Code provides a comfortable work space when in the development process. It has has an auto complete feature and hint system that aids while coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul R.

Founder

Computer Games

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/16/2019

"Very good Text editor for the new and professionals"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like their community that there is a plugin for everything, from web development to the flutter to the language like C and C++. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

some of the plugins still need to be fixed and corrected like for the C# omnisharp plugin requires loading every time you open the editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabrina L.

Web Application Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/1/2018

"The number of quality plugins there are"

4.5/5

Pavan D.

Digital Marketing Executive

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/19/2019

"Best Code Editor"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The User interface is best and the pre-installed extensions are very helpful to do a project. The availability of mass shortcut keys details was helpful to me to finish the project in a very short time period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

As my experience, I used this software and I didn't find any this which I dislike. For me, the software is perfect to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I would like to recommend it to others to use this software and explore its features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

By using this smart development software I developed some software and created some web templates as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.