Microsoft Visual Studio Code vs. Overleaf

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

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Overleaf is good to use in a lot of scenarios where something is to be written as a group. However, I believe that it is only good up to a certain amount of people working on the document at once. While I am unsure when it becomes too much, I got no doubt that there is a limit for when it is that good. Though normally, our group size of up to six people has been fine to work with in Overleaf.

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• 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

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• Easy to get started and compile documents
• Collaborative scientific writing
• Latex documentation
• Built in templates
• Comments and chat features

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• 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.

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• New user friendliness
• More concise error messages
• Layout

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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.

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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.

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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.

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[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.

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Overleaf promotes collaboration and has much better scientific formatting, which makes it great for research papers. It allows for much smoother and more professional looking documents, with easy to change and configure formatting. It is very difficult to insert mathematical formulas and long complex derivations in Microsoft Word, and formatting in Microsoft Word is also very finicky.

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• 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

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• Easier teamwork
• Better looking reports
• Better overview over document

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