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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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Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The text editor that feels like an IDE"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like that vsc is small and fast when compared to full IDE suites. The ability to load extensions that enhance what the environment can do help this feel like an end to end development suite, not a fancy text editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The first and biggest gripe I have with vsc is that you cannot pull tabs in the editor out and place them on other screens in the same way you can with Visual Studio. Also, though it isn't entirely the fault of this development team, the extensions can de-stabilize the application or cause it to stop being responsive. One such issue seemed to happen for a while with the OmniSharp plugin for C#. It would update every so often and occasionally it would start consuming more resources than is healthy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best coding text editor"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

You can code and use the terminal in the same application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Right now I can not see what I dislike. This is my favorite editor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Chemicals
AC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"the best autocomplete system I know"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code, an excellent source code editor. Adopt Visual Studio Code as my editor for my codes, mainly for the integrations of GIT, Intellisense, the best autocomplete system I know. Its powerful compiler and debugger of errors, in which I have taken the advantage to develop applications and websites for Global Security Path. I had tried Sublime Text and it does not give me completely the functions that I have found with VSC, it is a powerful editor for any code and this can be done by adding the extensions so that I can interpret any encoding that you make. It is totally light, free and with each integration of extensions you can take full advantage of this editor, I am pleased at all times to be able to work with this software and implement it with my colleagues during any programming project. For 10 years immersed in the programming I discovered a number of applications that little by little covered what I was looking for, until I found VSCode, improvements for Javascript works excellently, and it's a pleasure to program it, since you get the results and you can work without problem with all its autocorrector, its predictions of content, browsers, code suggestions and script administrators. I worked for a while with Brackets and this caused me certain problems to compile some commands and even had the support of their community to treat them that some suggested me to use Sublime Text, I managed to change to Sublime but it was very limited what I could achieve and despite VSCode is something similar comes more complete with innumerable functions to develop and obtain phenomenal results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Heavy. Its base is Electron (Chrome). It's practically like having an open browser. Not so fast. You notice a slight delay when you open files, move with the scroll or edit large files.

It does not work in terminal, although it does contain a terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great open source product"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

So much customizability terms of plugins and themes. Works great, all major operating systems. Good support from developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing in particular, although the software isn't a fully featured IDE, it works great for most purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabhakar M.
PM
Senior Associate Member
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"An Editor for Everyone. "
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Everything. yes, literally every feature of this editor is awesome. It can take couple of days to get used to visual studio code, but that would be worth it. Personally, I use zen coding, code refactoring, multiple select and live reload extension extensively. I have been using Visual studio code for application development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I have also used it for Angular applications, React applications and Vue JS applications.

TypeScript support is really good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Personally, nothing that I am aware of is disliked in Visual studio code. It is customizable and carter to the need of everyone. Plus the awesome community support and development teams is bringing cool features to this editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Loved to code with this amazing IDE"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I have been using it for coding since last 2 years, it gives massive comfortness for coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

While coding with this IDE at some cases it won't work as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best editor for coding. "
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The different short cuts it has are very convenient in navigation whole coding in different languages. It supports almost all languages band have different extensions for them. Also it has black theme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only thing I don't like about Visual Studio code is that it's inbuilt GIT is very hard to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Translation and Localization
UT
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Multipurpose text editor with IDE capabilities"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Incredible intellisense for JavaScript, amazing themes and color schemes, and regular updates with tons of new features and bug fixes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes it gets a little bit slow, and recognizes syntax the wrong way or not at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ivo J.
IJ
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Can't even remember how I used to write code before it..."
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The ease of use, the extensibility and the sheer amount of functionality it provides!

With VSCode I can work in whatever language I need, it is quite easy to find language plugins.

Also, for me it is the best Clojure and Erlang code editor out there.

The integrated debugger works amazingly well for most languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It eats up a considerable amount of RAM, but that's a decent trade-off for the functionality you get. It would be nice to lower it though...

I use it on macos, so sometimes it feels a bit sluggish when resizing windows, disposing them, etc... I don't know if this is down to macos or to VSCode itself, but it would be nice if wouldn't act this way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
EI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"best editor for everything from python to RDF and SPARQL"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

there seems to be syntax highlighting and formatting automation for every language and format Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

some smaller issues with managing folders vs. files, but overall no real complains possible 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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