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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Visual Studio Code

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers Visual Studio Code, an open source text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

    $0

    Replit

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AReplit is a cloud-based software development platform that combines a browser-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE), natural-language app generation, collaboration tools, and built-in publishing. The platform supports building web apps, mobile apps, dashboards, prototypes, documents, and other project artifacts from a shared workspace.

    $20

    per month

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    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeReplit
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    Replit Core
    $20
    per month
    Replit Pro
    $100
    per month
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    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeReplit
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeReplit
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    Those are agentic IDEs, a fork of VSCode, but Visual Studio Code is used for inferior hardware and has fewer features, whereas others have more features but can't be used on those devices. So, it's the POV of the machine's config: which IDE should be used? If it has a good …
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    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    70 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeReplit
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Vim
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeReplit
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (104 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Visual Studio CodeReplit
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    As a general workhorse IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio Codee is unmatched. Building on the early success of applications such as Atom, it has long been the standard for electron based IDEs. It can be outshone using IDEs that are dedicated to particular platforms, such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code for .net and the Jetbrains IDEs for Java, Python and others. For remote collaborative development, something like Zed is ahead of VSCode live share, which can be quite flakey.
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    Replit
    Replit is incredible for fast prototyping and then actually bringing it to life. One area it could improve would be allowing for easier connecting one app to another. Being able to create multiple apps inside of one ecosystem that can speak to each other would be a game-changer. That being said, Replit is still the best I've seen anywhere in the market for what it does.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Integrate with the git repository very well.
    • Integrated copilot chat is very helpful to write code snippets and helps beginners to start with coding and development.
    • Great library of available extensions is one of the best features in Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
    • Dedicated Testing option to configure pytest and others are quite handy to use.
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    Replit
    • Charges your Credit Card
    • Pushes you upgrade beacuse of the limitations (completely untrue)
    • Gaslights customers that reach out to support.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The customization of key combinations should be more accessible and easier to change
    • The auxiliary panels could be minimized or as floating tabs which are displayed when you click on them
    • A monitoring panel of resources used by Microsoft Visual Studio Code or plugins and extensions would help a lot to be able to detect any malfunction of these
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    Replit
    • Customer Service Advocation for Customer Experience
    • Some truth in the marketing, some of the claims were laughable at best
    • The AI Bot like hallucination and is not at all self-aware of the things it says
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    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.
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    Replit
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code earns a 10 for its exceptional balance of power and simplicity. Its intuitive interface, robust extension ecosystem, and integrated terminal streamline development. With seamless Git integration and highly customizable settings, it adapts perfectly to any workflow, making complex coding tasks feel effortless for beginners and experts alike.
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    Replit
    It great, we can iterate untill we get desired results
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    Overall, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty reliable. Every so often, though, the app will experience an unexplained crash. Since it is a stand-alone app, connectivity or service issues don't occur in my experience. Restarting the app seems to always get around the problem, but I do make sure to save and backup current work.
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    Replit
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Visual Studio Code is pretty snappy in performance terms. It launches quickly, and tasks are performed quickly. I don't have a lot of integrations other than CoPilot, but I suspect that if the integration partner is provisioned appropriately that any performance impact would be pretty minimal. It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles (unless you start adding plugins left and right).
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    Replit
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    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.
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    Replit
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    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 source control the given project is wired up to.
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    Replit
    Replit wins because it has the best combination of internal tools that work compared to how easy it is. I am not a developer, and I find Replit to be the absolute easiest. I have taught thousands of people how to use Replit. Many of these people came from other platforms, but when I showed them Replit, their assessment lines up with mine. Replit makes it easiest across the board without sacrificing power and capability
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    It is easily deployed with our Jamf Pro instance. There is actually very little setup involved in getting the app deployed, and it is fairly well self-contained and does not deploy a large amount of associated files. However, it is not particularly conducive to large project, multi-developer/department projects that involve some form of central integration.
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    Replit
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Saves money by replacing suites of tools such as Visual Studio, IntelliJ, etc.
    • Speeds development time and developer environment setup time
    • Strengthens code quality with integrated autoformatting and linting
    • Strengths Git practices by keeping version control tightly connected with the code
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    Replit
    • ROI was Zero
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