Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.	$0

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	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Visual Studio Code Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code prior to Visual Studio Code, I was using Sublime Text, which was not the most effective in terms of third-party libraries and complex debugging, so I switched to Visual Studio Code where I got a positive as a developer. it is having all the features and third-party libraries to … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio code UI is very handy. Extension feasibility is good Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Far better than Eclipse IDE. Eclipse takes so much space, and it is slow. Whereas Vs Code IDE is so fast and having good UI as compared to Eclipse. I help to work efficiently and is also highlight the syntax in good way by recommending in editor. Microsoft Visual Studio Code … Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code is much more lightweight than IntelliJ and Eclipse and is certainly comparable to Atom. I find that for most of my projects, VS Code is the most stable option, and is generally the quickest to boot. Generally, trying out all four can't hurt, but VS Code has been the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code 1. More features compared to Notepad++ 2. fast performance compare to Android Studio 3.More and usefull extensions then other two 4. Easy to use and everyone can start using it instantly 5. Version Control system is top notch 6.If you start using it , you will forget other ides … Helpful? Bimal Subedi Software Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a combined form of the above-mentioned products i.e. one product, many applications. Eclipse is suitable for java development, PyCharm is mainly for Python development whereas Android Studio is for Android applications development but in … Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It has some much more functionality than Notepad++, all the addons make editing scripts a breeze Incentivized Helpful? Tao Mihiranga Graphic Designer and Web Developer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft VS Code is extremely customizable with needs. So, features like syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, well-integrated terminal, and side-by-side editing are powerful. Even these features are given free with Microsoft VS code. PyCharm and WebStorm … Helpful? Satbir Singh MIS Analyst Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It has [the] right balance of solutions for [a] wide range of problems. Atom or Notepad++ are lighter but [have fewer] features, [Microsoft] Visual Studio [Code] is full of features but [a] tad heavier. Helpful? Tim Hardy Software Architect Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We had better luck with VS Code than Atom. We tried to like Atom pretty hard, but it just had some clunkiness and some unintuitive things that caused us to give up on it. Webstorm seems to be a much more capable competitor. The main pro of VS Code over Webstorm is that VS … Incentivized Helpful? Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I think VS Code is much better as compared to all the tools mentioned above. Just waiting for its support for iOS and Android development. currently, it misses support for them. That's where you will require Xcode and Android Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Sean Patterson Software Development Director Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code has turned out to be far more powerful than the original promises of the Atom editor. Microsoft Visual Studio Code supports large files much better than Atom, and more extensions are available for language support. NetBeans has been a slower … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code All the previously listed are incredible development environments that perfectly fulfill this function, but [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code goes one step ahead by providing flexibility, customization and adaptability to development environments with its own methodology, for all … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Orlando Senior Developer Analyst Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code stacks up nicely against Visual Studio because of the price and because it can be installed without admin rights. We don't exclusively use Visual Studio Code, but rather use Visual Studio and Visual Studio code depending on the project and which version of … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code When you start using [Microsoft Visual Studio Code], it lands more on the "text editor" side of the spectrum, akin to Vim/Emacs/Sublime. Aligned with this, it's fast and easy to install and setup, and competes with the best of them as a great general purpose tool. But then it … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is one of the peak engineering tools you can use today on the market. It's one of the most advanced IDE, and, currently, a de-facto top-used IDE. This alone should be proof to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code There are many IDEs available but I don't think anyone is better than Visual Studio Code. Most others are language dependent softwares while VS Code supports all the languages. There are others popular available like Atom, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and WebStorm but none of them … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code In all honesty, I've not even looked back at any of these alternatives since switching to Microsoft Visual Studio Code a few years ago, there simply isn't the need. For all I know they're all absolutely fantastic, but at the time of switching (and consistently since) Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I have been using Vim as both editor and IDE for development projects for a long time until I met Visual Studio Code. VS Code can provide the editing power of Vim through a plugin, plus many other benefits, thus it can easily replace Vim in most development use. Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code When it comes to UI and light weightiness, Visual Code is the winner. But when it comes to Intelli-Sense and autosuggestion IntelliJ works better in my view. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code wins hands down when it comes to light, easy, free yet super powerful. This is the perfect balance for that. If you need to manage a complete end to end project with team collaboration I would recommend Visual Studio IDE or Eclipse if you need to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code User interface and integration to other tools is very straightforward and easy to use. You can find [third] party [development components] very easy for Microsoft. You can code a variety of applications using the same framework without installing any plugins or extensions (Web … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Every IDE has almost the same features but being lightweight is a plus point for the IDE so that you can run on any hardware with good speed. VS Code has ultimate features. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Programming languages Pro Git integration Pro Easy to use
Top Cons	Minus Not very good Minus Bit confusing Minus Set up

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (89 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (2 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (24 ratings)

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	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Code is highly recommended for the development of systems and / or complex applications entrusted to work teams under a specific methodology, and its use is also recommended for the maintenance of previously developed applications. It is not recommended as a learning environment for developers with little experience as the learning curve would be too high Incentivized Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Very accessible -- it's compatible with all platforms and environments, free to install, and fast to open Strong native support for many languages, and very strong extensibility to provide advanced language features Git integration is top-notch, often displaying a better history, diff, and merge interface that is otherwise available in version control systems Incentivized Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Lack of button bar like ones found in Visual Studio. Lack of integrated help that could link to YouTube, Channel 9, or other Microsoft videos on how to learn about features. Integration with Team Foundation Server. Would like to see it having some sort of integration into a Web API testing harness. Incentivized Mark Orlando Senior Developer Analyst Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft Solid tool that provides everything you need to develop most types of applications. The only reason not a 10 is that if you are doing large distributed teams on Enterprise level, Professional does provide more tools to support that and would be worth the cost. Incentivized Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA DBA / Sr. Data Analyst Read full review
Usability	Microsoft This is a tool for programmers and it works like many others. If you are in the development world already then you will be sailing in no time with Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is also great for new developers and it is very easy to use and you can get all the tools you need in one place as you begin to learn. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft Active development means filing a bug on the GitHub repo typically gets you a response within 4 days. There are plugins for almost everything you need, whether it be linting, Vim emulation, even language servers (which I use to code in Scala). There is well-maintained official documentation. The only thing missing is forums. The closest thing is GitHub issues, which typically has the answers but is hard to sift through -- there are currently 78k issues. Incentivized Patrick Fong Senior Software Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized company, Microsoft, free of charge is phenomenal. The goodwill garnered by them is immeasurable. Other tools I've used were missing features or were just too rigid, too complicated, or too unsophisticated for my liking. The fact that VS Code is easy to mold to my will with the right extensions seals the deal. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Positive impact on minimizing time wasted by employees with software installation and setup Positive impact on reducing spend on software licensing Positive impact on minimizing time used to manage different applications for different purposes - this performs all of the functions we need in basic coding Incentivized Ryan McGarry Vice President of Research, Head Neuroscientist Read full review
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