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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sam jain (Student at JECRC University)

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.)

2/11/2019

"VS Code Review "

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Really great lightweight code editor that supports text coloring for many different languages. Also can have custom plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

sometimes doesn't automatically detect the language being used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/12/2019

"Multi-Platform, power full with better modularity"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Amazing Plugin Extensions, there are around 1000s of add on plugins available. Best thing to note down is git integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

New users can get quite intimidated with the tons of plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/4/2018

"Code editor with incredible plugins"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

This editor has a great search engine that allows us to access from the beginning of our code block until the end. It also offers personalization to our liking, you will find from Debug tools to options for real-time update of our code in the browser view and live compilation of the languages that require it. It is available for Microsoft, MAC and Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

To be a text editor I consider it quite powerful, because it is compatible with any programming language that you have heard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2019

"Lightweight and powerful"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It runs really smoothly, offers a lot of customisability and doesn't have a huge impact on the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing, I love it. I don't have any complaint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/18/2018

"Its impossible that Visual Studio comes from Microsoft"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I really like the simplicity of use, the powerfull plugins/extension system and the deeper integration with git, its difficult to think, that product comes from Microsoft a company in the past ten years was very closed to open source initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

At this moment, I cant found any thing that dislike me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Practically any piece of software can be developed in Visual Studio Code, there's no reason to use another expensive, ram eater IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Well we're migrating from comercial licensed IDE's to Visual Studio Code, because we can work with practically any environment, any language and any platform. We work with Java as we work with .Net Core. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaylee C.

Senior UI Developer

Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/25/2018

"How I Bring Home the Bacon..."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I spend about 50% of my day in Visual Studio Code... and in general it makes that time pretty pleasant. The extensions are top-notch and easy to handle, the integrated terminal is nice, and I really enjoy intelisense. All of these make it a solid choice for your day-to-day coding needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes VS code freaks out on very large (multi-megabyte) files... crashes and needs to be completely restarted. This is the most aggravating thing ever, because it means I occasionally lose some work. Still, this is pretty rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

santosh d.

Application Developer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/30/2018

"Best editor for scripting "

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Works on Mac, Linux and windows. Completely Free and open source. Integrated Git helps to maintain code version controlling. Supports huge plugins and extensions eventually supports all languages. Updates help to improve the product. look and feel is so awesome. easy to use controls. Integration with servers to develop project on Node.js , python and deploy easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

As it is Json based, some learning is required to change the settings.Integrated console gets unknown errors some times. Adding remote repositories through integrated git is not possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Strongly recommended to a API developer and scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use visual studio code to build API's using server-less framework and python scripting. developing code, testing and deployment is very easy. Interesting thing same code can be re deployed as production environment. Source version controlling is very helpful to share the code between colleges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/13/2018

"Great Tool for any OS"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like how much leaner it is than the full blown Visual Studio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It can be buggy at times and the documentation out on the web can be really hard to find what you are looking for when it comes to troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hamza B.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/6/2018

"Great replacement for Powershell ISE"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Git integration really makes it a solid products for those who want to have versioning and centralize their script repo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

You cant use ctrl + left and right arrow keys to move between words in powershell window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.