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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Naveen K.

Product Designer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/24/2022

"Vs Code is best editor ever."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

* It helps us write code without errors.

* It also helps us with building and testing code on the fly and deploying code locally.

* It's better than any other paid or free IDE/Text Editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

* Yes, there were some bugs in the previous release, but now those are fixed.

* I didn't find any problem with using VSCode.‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Yes office Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

VSCode makes it easier to write code. Whenever you make a syntax error or a typo it warns you immediately, which is really awesome! Also, it enables us to integrate debugger, lint, build, and publishing tools. It even comes with a huge set of plugins, which makes it superior! It supports almost every language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Najiba H.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/29/2022

"My Experience of using VS Code"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Integrated terminal. File Manager system inline. Ability to get code recommendations using extensions. Ability to build our own extensions. Integrated debugging with the ability to alter flow at runtime. Great shortcuts to add multiple cursors in one editor. Also awesome search and replace across multiple files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It can become very slow if we add many extensions. We cant split a window onto multiple monitors. Difficult to configure settings. You need to remember the parameters well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/15/2022

"Great tool with lot of plugins"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Vscode is user-friendly and quite powerful. Anyone can use it as it supports most of the language, even SQL. The best part its free to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It's a pretty heavy software, so if you have a less configuration system, the VScode might lag a bit which is kind of frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mayank T.

IT Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/22/2022

"Visual Studio code insightful"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual studio code is the best ide i used so far because of its light weight and lightning response.

it comes up with lot of extensions used for writing code. like prettier, eslint Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

it must come up with more better intelli sense.

it can also provide some base templates to start writing some code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subash b.

Sales Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/26/2022

"Best front end tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I loved the simple UI of visual studio code . It is very easy to use which has many functionalities for fast coding for web designing.we can use live server which renders the way it will render on actual website .it provides lots of extension which makes it easy to use any language in visual studio code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It is not a IDE so fully feature is not available for some of the languages. managing multiple files are not easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Saurav L.

Web Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/11/2022

"Best Code Editor in existence!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VSCode's ability to serve experienced or inexperienced users alike with the power of auto-complete extensions and edit files flawlessly, be it of any code language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The editor itself, on installation of a couple of extensions, gets bulky and auto-complete starts lagging, especially on low-end devices.

And the inability to recover undo-stacks of files after the editor is restarted is missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Prefer using with on mid-range or higher end devices to work flawlessly without the worry of your editor lagging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I use VSCode with a bunch of power extensions, like TabNine and Co-pilot which auto-completes my code and gives suggestions based on Artificial Intelligence.

The ability of VSCode to open multiple windows of files allowing seamless multi-tasking enables me to work in ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hardik R.

Ruby on Rails Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/22/2022

"One Of best editor easy to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The first thing I like is multiple language support.

So you can switch any language using a simple dropdown.

You can easily add any extension.

One of them is git integration is very powerful.

IDE is mighty, and you can easily switch any theme.

You can easily open your project with the directory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Honestly, Overall, everything is perfect.

I primarily work with ruby and rails, so best editor for me.

Also familiar with the sublime editor, but I prefer to visual studio code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

It's helpful to junior developers. So I'll suggest it to everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

At least I've not faced any problem.

I'm learning Shopify, so I take a Shopify theme clone and open in visual studio. So it's helped me a lot because visual studio code supports liquid language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sujith S.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2022

"All in one Developer Tool "VS Code""

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It is my favorite code editor, and it comes up with a rich set of features that makes web development easy. What I like about visual studio code is that it has a wide range of extensions that add up additional functionality to the code editor. Its wings make visual studios perform the language-specific task without using any other application. As a developer, I mainly use HTML, CSS, React, Javascript extensions for my projects.

It has a simple, user-friendly UI, and also it has several themes so users can choose from it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

To be honest, I don't have anything to complain about visual studio code. Microsoft perfectly builds it, and it's completely free. What can you expect more? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I will recommend visual studio code to every developer. It makes your work simple with all its extensions and suggestions. Try it once you don't get disappointed, that I can assure you. 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 write codes for developing applications. It makes my coding simpler, providing suggestions and auto-filling tags. I use its extensions for HTML,CSS,Javascript,react,angular etc for getting additional support while coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vishakha N.

Lead front end Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/15/2022

"Great for all front end works"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

1. Ease of project development

2. Suggestions for various plugins including gitLense, prettier, plugin cost,

3. Build creation is easy

4. User-friendly IDE

5. Inbuild terminal to execute commands

6. Live sharing of files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

1. It does not act as a very good tool when it comes to solving file conflicts.

2. Just for this one feature, I always jump on to the IntelliJ idea, otherwise, VS code will be awesome.

3. VS code also lacks the ability to show file history like IntelliJ ideas can provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have been using VS Code for more than 3 years now especially for the development of my projects in python, javascript, React, SCSS, Typescript.

It has been of very ease to write code in any of the above-mentioned languages in VS code.

Another benefit is the inbuilt integration with the typescript packages it has which provides a very strong hand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.