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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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Kshitij D.
KD
SDE-1
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Visual Studio code: A powerful text editor"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio code is a powerful and feature packed text editor. It's best feature is the availability of a large number of extensions which make working very efficient and convenient. Be it the integration of github co pilot or providing multiple language support it exceeds expectations in all domains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only thing that i dislike about VS code is that debugging becomes too difficult for industry level applications where we have to place multiple debugging points throughout the code to know the flow. It gets stuck when debugging points are large in number. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rakshit R.
RR
Back End Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"The best tool for coding - angular, node"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

As a developer, what I like best about Visual Studio Code is that is is very versatile and customizable, the differnent libraries and support tools are a very impactful.

Overall, its feature-rich in nature, flexible, and has a user-friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

One of the main drawbacks is that at time it comsumes a lot of memory and makes the system very slow, which some times lowers my productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anirudha M.
AM
Technology & Technical Product Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good experience using the MS Azure developer tools especially Azure DevOps"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Azure Devops - easy to use, able to capture sprint goals and used for daily scrum calls and able to integrate with third party apps along with easy implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Internet consumption is more as compared to its usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

👋🏻 Ste O.
👋O
Staff Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"An unexpected powerhouse"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The community support is second to none. If you can think of it, there's a plugin for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

As it comes out the box, there's no much to vscode. Whilst this means it's fast, to get a good developer experience, you need to install a lot of plugins which can slow things down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MD Suraj K.
MK
Associate Salesforce Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Localisation vs Cloud"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best IDE for any developer, with huge range of comfort, integrations, tools, light weight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

sometimes seem, a more lot of options on screen at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YS
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Maximizing Productivity with Visual Studio Code"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

As a developer, I have worked with a many code editor but VS code is my personal favorite choice. Its User-friendly interface is very helpful when we are developing a big project.

Also, VS code provides many extensions for different languages and different tasks that can improve our productivity. The ability to customize my workspace with themes and extensions allows me to create a personalized development environment that is perfect for my needs.

VS Code is an open-source project, and the level of Customer support it receives from both Microsoft and its community is remarkable. VS code is easy to implement with a wide range of other services like database, accessing a remote server etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Working with large projects that include a high number of files can use high-memory which can affect to performance of the VS code. This can be challenging when working with large projects and with complex dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HARSH S.
HS
Mern Stack Developer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use and compact text editor with alot of useful extensions."
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code comes up with an interactive user interface and a lot of additional themes that can be applied to make it more engaging while working. It supports extensions of almost all the useful programming languages which makes it a versatile code editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code requires a system with good specifications to work efficently. In low end systems it does not behave as efficient as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yash P.
YP
Project Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Impressive Code editor"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

a huge market with extensions available for almost every tool, framework, or language. comprehensive editor customization options, including keybindings, settings, and themes. sophisticated syntax highlighting across a range of languages. support for many terminal sessions to be open at once. Git commands for version control are integrated, and they are easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Certain extensions may cause unexpected behavior if they clash with one another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nivedita S.
NS
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Software Engineer"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio code offers extensibility and User-friendly interface. It stands apart for its outstanding mix of execution, adaptability.

One of its best highlights is the rich biological system of augmentations, permitting designers to fit their current circumstance to explicit dialects and work processes, from Python and JavaScript to Docker and Kubernetes. The incorporated Git support improves on variant control, giving a consistent work process to overseeing code changes. Furthermore, its IntelliSense include upgrades coding effectiveness with savvy code culminations in light of variable kinds, capability definitions, and imported modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

While Visual Studio Code is a well known and flexible code supervisor, a few clients track down a couple of disadvantages.

A few designers likewise find its coordinated Git support and investigating devices to be less instinctive contrasted with other committed instruments. Moreover, regardless of being profoundly adjustable, the underlying arrangement can be overpowering for fledglings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best-in-industry code and text editor"
What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VS Code has a vast amount of advantages:

0. Effective even with zero configuration.

1. Configurability - relatively simple to install and even create addons.

2. Constantly evolving and being improved.

3. Developers are very responsive in their repository issue page, providing effective support.

4. Free and open source.

5. Relatively light on your system.

6. Huge amount of addons and plugins to configure the editor for your own case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

In some ways, it isn't up to par with its main competitor for web development (Webstorm).

For example, navigating between packages from your package.json in Javascript projects, running scripts and managing SQL databases and a few more.

I still find it better for everyday use than Webstorm. 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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