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

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/18/2019

"Best IDE out there"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Opening folders and quickly re-opening recent files as a default action is very easy. Adding multiple projects to a workspace and setting it to open by default is really good. It works very for running individual go tests. Doesn't crash as often as sublime text. The side bar is really good too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

With ruby the symbol creation table takes forever and going to a function definition does not work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/17/2019

"Amazing Editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The extensions and the clean design is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I haven’t really found much to dislike so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jaime M.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/8/2018

"Open Source IDE for modern developers"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It is open source, making it easy to extend and modify.

Very fast and lightweight, compared to other solutions.

The UI is intuitive and good looking.

Lots of plugins to add additional functionality.

Because it is built on HTML, CSS, JS it is very customizable without modifying the source code.

It has support for anything, any programming language, platform, framework, anything.

It has a great and very active community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It is pretty fast but not lightining fast.

It broke several times on me while updating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

alfredo p.

Freelance Software Developer

Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/25/2018

"Best open source code editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best thing is, it is free open source editor, can run on windows, linux and mac, very light editor but so powerful, support many programing language as, C/C++/C#, JavaScript, PHP, Json, Python, Lua and more, very customizable text colors, backgrounds, panels you can setup your own enviroment as you wish, the debugging tool is amazing, you can do it step by step, is very simple to import/export github codes. also there are extensions which can be use to make the editor even more powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There is nothing bad about visual studio code, i think microsoft did a wonderful work, and the community just follow them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

This is that tool which any programer will need, because you can have always it with you, is very powerful, if you need more than one ide or editor, this is the app what you need, i recommend to use the extensions, will make the work even more easier, there are many shortcuts, that help to write code faster, and are very easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm full stack web developer/software developer, with visual studio code, i only need one code editor, which can meet all my requeriments, so i don't have to have many editors, is very light i have it on my laptop, and tablet, it runs everywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arun Sai Kumar R.

Systems Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/28/2019

"Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The user friendly features it provides makes developer to do tasks easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

As far I experienced, I did not find any disliking factor's in that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/20/2019

"Visual Studio Code - review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is the best source code editor which helps us to edit, view, run and debug source code easily. It supports Typescript, JavaScript and JSON. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code has less support for other languages such as Python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/26/2019

"Favorite Editor!"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I love VS code, I think they have so many great extensions that really make writing code a good experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I’ve recently run into some situations where the IntelliSense was thinking there was a syntax error when there really wasn’t Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Religious Institutions

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/12/2019

"De-factor standard in modern text-editing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The VS Code editor has many built-in features that other editors lack, like a debugging interface, language introspection support, and built in terminal window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Making all the plugins and extensions play nicely is a huge time investment for each project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryszard B.

Front-end Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/26/2018

"Very fast and intuitive tool for programmers"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

A lot of updates, nice user interface and user experience. Built-in emmet and syntax colors. Other really cool element is build-in console, which is very helpfull for developers. For example you don't need to open PowerShell or CMD on other window, when you want to start Gulp or something else, everything is in one application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I like all elements of this application. I hope that team will still make that great job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

In my opinion this is one of the best tool for front-end developers. I'm using this app for develop in HTML, PHP, CSS, SCSS, LESS and JavaScript. Application is free and has a lot of updates, team is still working on new features. This is also great tool for everyone who wants to start journey with front-end development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This is my basic tool to develop new code, so most of my business problems are solved using Visual Studio Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/12/2019

"A text editor made for developers and it’s so good."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I especially like this products flexibility and built in handy development features. I never knew I needed a terminal in my editor until using VS code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only thing I’ve found so far that I’m not fond of is that it eludes me how to change a language and have the editor pick up and change syntax highlighting easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.