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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Amrish K.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2022

"A fast light weight IDE"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VS code is very fast in global code search & the IDE is lightweight and doesn't require much processing power. It has a very rich extensions marketplace and the remote IDE feature is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Certain language extensions are very surface-level and don't go deeper into the code. For example, the GoLang extension support is very minimal and doesn't support many auto-fills when compared to JetBrains IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jessica Jhoanna O.

Frontend Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/12/2022

"It has everything you need from a code editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It has plugins for everyone, which allows you to create a personalized, intuitive interface adapted to the personal needs of each user.

It's free, it has git integrated making it much easier to collaborate with work teams. Super easy and fast to install and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Consumes more ram memory than the average code editor. When using it for the first time as a beginner it is intimidating and a bit complex to create the mix of plugins that suit you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanishq G.

Data Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/23/2022

"All in one IDE"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

I like the fact that it supports many languages along with so many extensions, which makes coding a lot easier. It also has many features and shortcuts for everything along with source control and debugging. It has a seamless experience overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

For certain languages like C, we need to config files and all, which are not required in several C specific IDEs, so that's a time-consuming process. if you don't use several different languages then it lacks language-specific IDEs like PyCharm for Python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman G.

Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/22/2022

"Best IDE for Developers"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It is free open-source software.It very user-friendly for beginners as well as professionals. It supports in almost all and older hardwares.It provides extensions to download which are very useful for developers.It supports most of the programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It is good for small projects, it is not suitable for big projects. Project management is quit difficult. Sometimes it hangs on running high level codes of database. The setting interface is very complex not simple for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atulya B.

Technical Support Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/27/2022

"My go-to editor for all my coding projects"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is an open-source and cross-platform code editor that has support for a huge number of extensions that make working on a codebase very seamless, from writing code to compilation and deployment can all be done from within VS Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Although VS Code can be compared to an IDE, it isn't one and you need to install appropriate third-party extensions in order for it to support the language you want to code in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yadu K.

Information Technology Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/15/2022

"Best Open-source Code Editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is the best open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It offers a large community and supports for the users. The best thing I noted about Visual studio code is its extensions, which make visual studio code more adaptable to different project requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

After using Visual studio code for more than 3 years, I have never faced any issues or problems to dislike in Visual Studio Code. It is the best code editor that is available now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

It's the best code editor available now. I will recommend others for trying this wonderful code editor if they have never tried this before. All I can say is it offers a rich set of features that are essential for any development project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Mainly I use Visual Studio Code for developing web applications. Visual Studio Code offers a rich set of extensions for various programming languages, frameworks, tools, etc. The extensions allow me to add additional functionalities to my project and help me to develop applications much faster than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2022

"One of the best code Editor to the Developers"

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is the best editor, which can support almost all programming language tools and extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

It will be helpful if we have more documents and help articles to setup the environment for different programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikram S.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/23/2022

"It's common IDE, where we can write and execute programs/projects."

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

It's very simple and advanced version IDE for development and testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

When you was trying to create a new file, there is no default file extension, you should have to define which type you want to create.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mayank M.

Software Engineer Trainee

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/24/2022

"Best IDE I've ever seen."

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Git and GitHub integration are awesome. A large number of extensions that support almost every language and is very convenient. Automatic error checking is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I think the debugging support can be improved. The settings interface seems to be a bit complex. A built-in feature to display SVG file preview can be added as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jatin A.

Senior Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/11/2022

"Visual Studio Code - One of the best IDE for software development"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best thing is It is free product developed by tech giant the Microsoft.

It is light weight and can run on low end machines as well.

Moreover, it is very UI friendly and supports development in almost all the languages.

It has its own market place to download plugins required as per your need.

You can customise its UI, fonts as per your choice. It also has a lot of shortcuts for almost every command/action to speed up your work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Though, there isn't much that you don't like in VS Code, still sometimes It is bit difficult to setup advance configurations in certain languages.

Some of the extensions/plugins have bugs and not all of them are free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have low end computer and i was trying to do dot net development on Visual Studio.

Due to low configuration of my computer, it was getting freezed.

But when I switched to VS Code, I was able to continue with development without any issue.

It is very light weight yet powerful tool which can do wonders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.