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 Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/25/2019

"Fantastic"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

All the plugins available, ease of use, multiple cursors, support for language-specific colors and formatting, integration with Git Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

How much I need to use my mouse rather than keyboard to navigate. Notifications that can't be turned off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nam V.

COO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/22/2019

"All In One Open Source Editor"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It has a nice plugin/extensions ecosystem

It has built-in extension management

Debugger for Chrome is My favorite, and it makes me excited about VSCode.

Git integration is very convenient.

Integrated Terminals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Git integration is not as powerful as SourceTree

Launch time is slower than other text editors

The autocomplete and code check is not as good as WebStorm.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/2/2019

"I highly recommend Visual Studio Code"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The interface and UI of Microsoft Visual Studio Code is excellent, and it's extremely functional as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

To be honest, the only thing I dislike about it is that it's made by Microsoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditya D.

Co-Founder and Android Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/6/2018

"An IDE that can (almost) do anything"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The IDE is quite light( not as light as Sublime, but not as heavy as the others). The IDE itself doesn't come with all the bells and whistles of Fancy and heavy IDEs like autocomplete and other features, but the best part about Visual Studio Code is that there is an active community that churns out extensions. And the extensions are what make Visual Studio Code standout!

And it is available on the three major OS platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Now, there comes some extensions that have that irritatingly recurrent bug, and they tend to go unfixed for a pretty long amount of time.

Sometimes there are too many iterations of the same extension, and unless viewed properly we might just download the wrong one.

So if only Visual Studio could verify and put the most used(or trusted) extensions with some sort of marking, it could make a lot of difference for the beginners. Else, it just takes a hell lot of time to set up the environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

First try Sublime, then come to VSC. You can notice the difference that the extensions and the numerous features that you were missing on Sublime Text Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Well currently it can be tailored to any coding platform that you want it to be, even Android. Visual studio comes inbuilt with support for the MEAN stack so, currently work has been limited to Python and MEAN stack app/website development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael M.

Digital Imaging Specialist

Photography

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/23/2019

"Excellent code editor without project requirement"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like that Visual Studio Code lets me work on a project without creating a project database file. Netbeans would require a project database file, which took extra disk space and had to be stored somewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It gets updated very often which takes a few minutes off my day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patricia S M.

Design and Development of web pages

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/13/2019

"Visual Studio Code - Source code editor with wonderful functions"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It is a very good and intelligent editor because it has an excellent autocomplete which allows me to write my code faster, in addition, the debugging is very novel, since it is done directly from the editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It does not support many programming languages, it also has no FTP options, and I can say that it consumes a good amount of RAM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Very innovative editor and that is constantly updated, I recommend it for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In my company we use Visual Studio Code for many reasons, but one of the main ones is that it is a low-cost programming software with good features and that it is also a good tool to work in a team since it has integrated git commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/8/2019

"best code editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Free, works well with most languages and frameworks. great support. extensions. themes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

there's one feature i've been waiting on and that's floating windows like visual studio. this will allow user to utilize multiple monitors easily without having to open another instance and stay in the same workspace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I'd definitely recommend using VS Code, it is arguably the best code editor to date. We have been using it since the beginning and we are amazed of the speed of updates and improvements that Microsoft is doing to the product. LiveShare is a great way of pairing when you have remote developers and they don't have to take over share from skype then can just work together at the same time. it's like you're in a google doc! We call it pair programming on steroids!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

insurance. ease of use and performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/11/2019

"Great tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Great extensions, liveshare, help collaboration, difference tracking, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Can get slow if you add too many plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/7/2019

"All in one ide for mobile developing"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like that you can build and run your project on terminal and manage git on the same terminal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The console doesn’t show the console.log command only if you are in debug mode this logs are shown Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/2/2019

"I use vscode as my code editor "

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I think the terminal that i can use while coding is very helpful in visual studio code. And the shortcut to open a folder or file in visual studio code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I don’t like how it doesn’t support word documents or excel documents for viewing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.