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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thomas a.

front end developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/24/2019

"A light weight, proficient, all purpose open source code editor "

3.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio is one of the most efficient code editor for Linux, windows and macOS. It has support for debugging. It provide provides syntax highlighting which helps you find errors easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio hangs and crashes a lot when you’re working with files greater than few MBs. Finding syntax errors is also time consuming with it. It slows down by add-ons too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matias I.

Full Stack Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2019

"Great text editor!"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like VS Code because it is simple, clean, very fast and lightweight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing, i really like Visual Stucio Code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mayur P.

PHP Developer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/22/2018

"Me and My Editor : Visual Studio Code"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

This editor is one of the fastest editor and support more than one plugins at a time.

Writing Django and python codes is a lot easier with it. I have been doing front end development with visual code and i have not faced any problem till now. also when you are using GIT and conflict option is most like in this editor. it is easy to resolve conflict in this editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes PC get hang and we have to force close application. Other than that i have not faced any issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Ye sure i will Recommend all the Developers to use this editor because it is very much easy to use and so much of plugins are available , Terminal is also inbuild so this is very much useful while you are working with laravel and nodejs platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I would like everyone to use this editor because it suppots multiple terminal in built, git plugin just install and project will connect with git. Also there are so many plugins are there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/20/2019

"Great text editor/light IDE"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The extensions make for great usability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only dislikes I could come up with would be very nitpicky. The code folding isn't quite to my taste, but only because the keyboard shortcut for it isn't one I'm used to (and I find hard to remember). Some of my less-used extensions' keyboard shortcuts are hard to remember (there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts, which I love). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

The extensions are what make this shine. When you have a need, do some searching to see if there is an extension that can help. If you think a text editor/light IDE should be able to do something, VS Code probably can. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

VS Code has replaced Notepad++ for me. I pull in JSON and XML files and format for easy reading, I write quick scripts, I maintain Github repos, and I run SQL queries when SSMS's intellisense is lagging. This has eased many of the day-to-day small tasks that need to be done to support the software and business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sebastian G.

Developer of mobile applications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/24/2019

"Write all the code you want with this superlight editor."

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It has a very simple and fresh interface, you can edit any type of code without problems, it is also very light and multiplatform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It's a little different from other source code editors, since their menus are very different, and sometimes the extensions bring problems with the configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

It is a tool that every programmer should use since it is very simple and easy to program with this editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I can have it in any operating system, it also helps me and the integration it brings with Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/10/2019

"Good"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The extensions and integration with git are really useful. It’s a fantastic editor for writing code, and it is versatile enough that it easily picks up the syntax of different JavaScript frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes it can be buggy about highlighting which files are currently being worked on in the sidebar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/1/2019

"Probably the perfect text editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The sheer amount of plugins available for various languages. Also the application is pretty lighweight and also includes an integrated terminal which is a big plus to have. It's very simple to write, debug, arrange and organize code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There should be a 4 way code editing option. That is what I miss the most. Also there should be an option for an even darker color scheme to be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

It's almost the perfect text editor considering that you can program in almost any language with it. I would recommend it to anyone working in the industry for clean well documented code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Working with hyperledger fabric, hyperledger composer, docker files, Go language code. I've used visual studio code to deploy hyperledger docker containers on virtual machines a lot of times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Design

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/8/2019

"Great Text Editor"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I switch from Sublime Text, which I thought was a pretty good tool, but man Visual Studio Code really does blow it out of the water. Lots of great functionality and extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Really don't have a lot of complaints at this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2019

"Best editor for all of your needs"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code has become the most popular way for me to edit files, whether it's plain text or doing updates to Python, Bash, or JavaScript files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There's not a lot to dislike about Visual Studio Code. Some features may still be lacking, but it updates every month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.