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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Aarti A.

Data Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/6/2022

"Review for Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is super lightweight owing to its robust architecture, and since it is free of cost, it is popular amongst its users and many organizations as well. Along with being used for desktop applications, it also supports web technologies like Json, HTML, and CSS, which is one of the main reasons behind its popularity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Some cons of using Visual Studio Code are that it uses a lot of CPU while running, which may cause your device to freeze for some minutes. Yet another thing is the lack of a built-in coding formatting tool. Microsoft could also help by adding a built-in database support like XAMPP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

This is a great tool, especially for coding amateurs! Anyone who needs to code on a daily basis can make the best use of this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Thanks to Visual studio code, I no longer need to use different editors for different languages. Thanks to the multi-language support provided by Microsoft, I can easily code in the language of my choice, and any errors or faults are also automatically detected by the application. The cross-platform nature of the application helps me use it on all three platforms: Windows, Linux, and Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjit P.

Software Engineer 1

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/21/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Ultimate code editor IDE"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best part I liked about Visual Studio Code is,

1. Support for various programming languages such as Python, CPP, Java, Go, HTML, etc with integrated IDE.

2. Availability of free extensions marketplace such as Live Server, CMake, GitLens, Prettier, etc.

3. Free of cost available, lightweight, and quick installation.

4. Excellent code suggestions and Exceptional tips for writing code.

5. Ability to open multiple windows; hence we can parallelize our work and reduce the effort of switching code branches.

6. Integrated command palate through which we can directly push our code to pertinent codebase such as GitHub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only fallback of Visual Studio Code editor is the amount of memory it consumes, hence sometimes getting stuck during work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

Visual Studio Code is an all-in-one code editor that serves the purpose of both coding and development. I highly recommend this software to anyone looking for a code editor with an inbuilt command palate and can customize it according to their use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Microsoft Visual Studio Code for writing and debugging our Python, Go, CPP, and Java-based applications. The in-built code assistant such as autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and push/pull code enables us to write and update our scripts quickly. It supports for a tremendous amount of programming languages; collaborative work on the same project makes our job much more manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ganesh K.

Test Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/19/2022

"Very easy to create and execute. Net projects"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The intelligence built in the tool helps the developer write programs easily and efficiently with less error on compilation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Can add more plugins so I can integrate more thirs party tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sujith S.

Consultant

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/4/2022

"All in One Code Editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

As a web developer, visual studio code is one of the essential code editors to have, which supports development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It has a rich set of extensions that makes a developer work easy. Talking about its extensions like Prettier, Bracket Pair Colorizer, CSS Peek, Live Server, etc., adds a lot of extra features to the code editor. So we don't have to use any other tools to perform specific actions. All are integrated as extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

As a developer, I'm happy with visual studio code. There is nothing that I have noticed to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you are a developer, go for VS code, it is an all-in-one code editor that makes your work easy. 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 web and mobile applications. I mainly use its extension for HTML, CSS, javascript, and react extensions as part of my coding process. Suppose I talk about the benefits of using vs. code, many things to mention. If you are a web developer, then you know the value of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/19/2022

"Ideal Modern IDE for any developement"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Easy to use, great customizability with extensions, themes etc. Supports any technology syntax and is pretty lightweight to use. The web version of the tool is also great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing much to dislike about the tool. The tool is built by engineers for engineers. So they've got most things right about it. maybe not that great for mobile app development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shrey M.

Interaction Design Intern - Student Information Systems

Design

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/19/2021

"One of the best freeware code editors, but still with some limitations"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is one of the best free code editors out there. The program by itself is an extremely lightweight software. It can run on almost any configuration machine quite smoothly but what makes it great is the extensive array of plugins and extensions that come with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

My problem with visual studio is that it often lacks the enterprise features that companies want such as logging into view code, change requests. These things can be achieved via a plug in but there is no great way to figure out which plugins are good and if they have been security tested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cody L.

SSoftware Development Engineer in Test

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/10/2021

"Great IDE for.... well, everything really!"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Quick and simple: I like Visual Studio Code due to its flexibility. I want to be able to open a file, and VsCode automatically recognizes what type of file it is and suggest that I install extensions if they aren't already installed... it does!

Great programming language compatability comes standard, and if it doesn't have what you need, there's an extension for that.

No extension for that? No worries, build one! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There's sometimes not an easy way to figure out which extensions are newer and do NOT have great support. This is just inherent to a flexible platform like VSCode though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

M H.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/18/2021

"With Visual Studio Code you have everything you need in an editor."

4/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Although a bit of a learning curve at first, Visual Studio Code has everything you need in a code editor.

A great addition of Visual Studio is the option to add many plugins to make your workflow a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Nothing much really. It provides everything that you need in a code editor. If anything, it can sometimes be a bit too advanced for some simple editing functions.

There is software that is lighter (in size and PC load) than visual studio for basic functions like HTML edits and such. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

If you are looking for an all-in-one code editor, Visual Studio has you covered. With the addition of (free!) plugins, you will be able to code in a wide variety of different languages.

The software is also free and allows you to sync your work with Github or Microsoft. This gives the great benefit of cloud saving all your projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I mainly use Visual Studio for HTML and CSS work. I recently started to edit Wikipages from within VS, but it is not as intuitive as I wanted it to be.

Still a great feature to add though.

For more generic HTML/CSS work it works very good. In some cases, I use it to edit some GitHub work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denise L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/15/2021

"Excellent and Sophisticated!"

5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

What I like most about VSC is that it has so many plug-ins that helps with my programming productivity. I'm able to use the plug-ins to beautify my code, type in code acronyms, and more! It's very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

What I dislike about VSC is on my my windows laptop it can be slow to run programs and sometimes ends up crashing, but on my Mac it doesn't seem to take as long to run my code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Visual Studio Code:

I don't believe I have any recommendations rather than seeing why it is slow for Windows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My organizing is using VS Code to help our prospective students apply to out University twice as fast as they normally would. With VS code allowing us to program faster, we are able to try different solutions to make our applications more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avnish N.

Flutter Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/23/2022

"Code your app with light weight IDE."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The easy to code interface and easy to navigate on different files of the project.

The tons of plugin make it very useful for different coding purpose.

This light weight solution is all you need for front end development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Managing multiple project at a time is not that easy.

Sometime there is some hidden useful feature that we got to know after research, while it should be somewhere where it's easily accessible to everyone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.