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February 28, 2020
The best thing to come out of Microsoft in years!
Here in the engineering org, all of frontend developers use VSCode to write their Javascript/HTML/CSS. But more than that, we also have about half of our backend developers using VSCode to write our...*drum roll* Scala code! What!? Yes, while VSCode and similar glorified text editors such as Sublime Text and Atom are traditionally relegated to being used by programmers for dynamically typed / interpreted languages, VSCode is so powerful and awesome even backend people such as me use it for writing Scala, which if you didn't know is perhaps the epitome of a typed and compiled language. VSCode makes writing code of all sorts much easier and doesn't get in your way.
- Very active development with Microsoft backing. I don't see VSCode going away for a decade.
- Very active community with all the plugins you need
- For a electron app, VSCode's speed is stellar, almost comparable to ST3 which is natively built
- Similar to all other electron apps, VSCode's memory and battery usage is pretty bad. Better plug in when you use it!
- No git merging, which many people have come to expect as ST3 and Atom have the ability to do that
- Default key shortcuts make no sense and I had to reconfigure almost all of them
November 23, 2019
VSCode for an ultra-fast, personalized developer experience
Visual Studio Code is used at will by our development team. Developers are allowed to use whichever IDE/code editor they would like. About 50% of our Javascript developers use VS Code, while the other 50% use WebStorm. For development in other languages like Java, they may pick a more robust IDE like Eclipse. I spend 80% of my time developing in Javascript and VS Code allows me to easily customize the workspace for my workflow, as well as quickly switch and inherit workflows from other projects.
- VS Code is really good at allowing customization and extensibility. There are a ton of extensions to use for all types of workflow enhancement. In particular, the user snippets and keybindings really help me personalize the experience for my developing style.
- VS Code works really well with Typescript. I really like the linting and IntelliSense that come with it. It makes the development process so much faster!
- I like that it has an integrated terminal. The terminal makes it easy to execute programs, tests, and make git changes. Its all right there and easily opened with a hotkey. I love that you can even run as many as you want! so one tab can be running a webpack development server, another watching your tests, and another for making git commits. All without leaving the window.
- The command palette is a nice touch. It's very easy to open with a hotkey and customizable to your own commands. Once you are familiar with all of them it makes your workflow quite fast, being able to open, run, change the configuration, etc all with simple commands.
- Sometimes it can't keep up with all of the extensions, linting, etc that you are trying to run. It's great that it is lightweight, but if you don't get your configuration right you can be asking it to do a lot. An example is if you are running ESLINT and don't tell it to ignore the node_modules, it will try to lint it. I noticed this really slows things down to the point where you need to reload the window.
- You can't open the same project in two different windows. A forward approach to git repositories is to have a 'monorepo'. This doesn't the best with VSCode since you can't open the same project in multiple windows. It constrains you to either opening subfolders individually (which messes up the runtime root) or forces you to work in the workspaces mode.
- There is no visibility into conflicting extensions. It would be great if they added visibility into what extensions are accessing which pieces of the internal API, so they could notify users of conflicts.
November 12, 2019
Visual Studio Code - the best, free IDE for JavaScript projects
We used Microsoft Visual Studio Code to handle many of our JavaScript projects. Visual Studio Code is much more suited to Single Page Application (SPA) projects, NodeJs projects, and any client-focused projects than Visual Studio. Visual Studio is not a good fit for any project that needs to respond to many files changing on the file system, which SPA projects typically do. Visual Studio Code fills this gap by allowing the file system to be the source of truth, instead of fighting changes to the file system, like Visual Studio will do.
- Manages SPA applications well by responding to changes on the file system, such as those made by "ng serve".
- Manages any npm-based application by responding to changes made by "npm install".
- Highly pluggable architecture allows the Developer to configure their environment however they like.
- I would like there to be a more "out of the box" default configurations for Angular projects. By default, Visual Studio Code does not honor tslint suggestions in Angular projects, and it creates friction between devs who are set up to honor Angular's tslint guidelines and newer developers who are not. Just a single choice to "configure for Angular" would be great.
- I would also like to be able to use the Visual Studio Code as a "git merge tool" to handle merge conflicts. You currently can't do that in VS Code.
- I'd like to be able to pin tabs like I can in Visual Studio, so I can keep certain files always open.
February 28, 2020
Microsoft Visual Studio Code: Best IDE for Coding
Visual Studio Code is my favorite code editor of all the available code editors. There are several reasons why I like Microsoft Visual Studio Code above all.
1.) It has variety of programming language syntax highlighter, which makes it very easy to code, debug the applications.
2.) I have been using VS Code for the past 5 years, and I developed many applications using this editor.
3.) It is very light and free, offered by Microsoft.
4.) We have been continuously working with this IDE to build applications. Organizing the projects is very easy and the in-built terminal makes it easier to build the project instantly.
5.) We have been using this IDE to develop Django-based web applications.
- It is very light in weight and takes very little time to start.
- Syntax highlighter is available for almost every programming language.
- Many shortcuts are available to make the job easy.
- I really like the theme of the IDE and frequent update patches make it a better IDE.
- Sometimes, while developing HTML/CSS-based applications the SIDE preview plugin does not work properly.
We currently use VS Code extensively for coding and specifications documents. It's mostly used by the development and customer success teams. VS Code is fast and provides numerous extensions to help make code more readable. It's constantly improving and supports popular and domain specific languages. Many of these extensions include auto-generation and formatting to improve productivity and assist the team in maintaining standards.
- Widely supported across different environments.
- Great support for various DSLs.
- Would be nice if it had better Java support, the extension is getting close but still not as good as Eclipse.
- Not a fan of many of the default shortcut keys (e.g. find all references).
Our Data Engineering team uses Visual Studio Code to create Python ETL processes. The VS Code environment provides a simple IDE that enables efficiently writing and testing code.
- Low memory usage.
- Excellent extension library.
- Simple to use.
- Source control is a bit clunky.
March 27, 2020
The best tool to develop your code.
In my company, Microsoft Visual Studio Code is used in the web development department, since with it they can easily write PHP / JS / HTML and CSS codes. It is a very powerful and lightweight editor that meets the requirements we need for the development of web applications. Microsoft Visual Studio Code makes our work much easier since it is a fully customizable and inexpensive tool.
- It has a large community of active developers.
- Its interface is very good and customizable.
- It has excellent plugins and support for many programming languages.
- It has default tools for the administration of GIT repositories.
- Keyboard shortcuts are bad.
- The settings are lost when closed.
- It does not have a dynamic preview.
- JAVA programming is not very good.
I am not sure if Microsoft Visual Studio is being used along with the organization. At least in our department, it is used to develop solutions to some problems mostly in our servers hosting our analytics tool.
- Microsoft Visual Studio allows developers to create dynamic web applications and websites.
- The best feature is that it can be used for a wide variety of technologies.
- It can be integrated with different databases.
- The reporting services are quite limited in terms of features.
- Since it is a heavy product it consumes a lot of resources.
- The full Visual Studio IDE doesn't run on Linux.
November 21, 2019
Beautiful Code with Helpful (Intelligent) Suggestions
Microsoft Visual Studio Code helps me write python in a clear and organized fashion. The python package helps color code and indent as needed. It has made learning python easier and I would recommend it to anyone! It's been my favorite way to code so far above JupyterLab and online based systems.
- I love the color coding and automatic error checking.
- Can run multiple terminals within.
- Python library is easy to install and very helpful.
- It would be nice to create folders within Microsoft Visual Studio Code instead of creating them on your computer first.
- Would be nice to use sticky keys so you can save CLs and your program name instead of typing it each time.
- It auto saves some things I never intended to save like random code thoughts which is kind of annoying.
October 16, 2019
So far, the best code editor by Microsoft.
I work as a C# developer at my present company. I am the only C#/.NET developer in our company and I regularly use Microsoft Visual Studio Code for application development. It allows me to open one or more directories, and then save in work-spaces from where I can re-access for future use.
- Fast
- Cross-platform
- Support for a variety of programming languages
- Embedded git isn't powerful enough
- Slow launch time
- Bad auto import
Being an application development team, we use Visual Studio to code in Angular and Python. It is being used by most of the developers in my organization as we found it very helpful and easy to use with the way it provides the interface and the formatting of code. Earlier we used to write the JavaScript code in Notepad and we realized how easy it is to code in an IDE like Visual Studio.
- It will let you know if you miss any tags in HTML or even it will close the tags for you on its own when you open a tag.
- Great interface.
- The universal search option is a bit unclear.
- The terminal can take a bit of time to open.
February 14, 2020
Its as simple as Microsoft Visual Studio Code
- Most developers of my company use Microsoft Visual Studio Code. There is a fair percentage of testers and automation engineers that take advantage of it as well. From a testing point of view, training was conducted to enable us to code on Microsoft Visual Studio Code to run automation lightly.
- The language used by most of the testers is python. Because of the push for skilled cross individuals in my company, the ration of Microsoft Visual Studio Code users between devs and testers is closer to each other than one would think. I would imagine its somewhere close to 60:40. Workspace customization is a pro to most users here, which is what Microsoft Visual Studio Code provides.
- Extension support is amazing
- Works with different environmetns
- Dislike the autosaving that occurs, which one would think is fine but can be unwanted.
- Heavy app, system resource heavy and not that friendly to lowly specked PCs.
February 12, 2020
Efficient Code Editor that provides essential to advanced features for all programming languages
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is used across the whole organization. I know many people in both Information Technologies and Research & Development departments that use Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is used to develop embedded software for electronic cards, .NET programs that are used by other business units, background services, and Python scripts that help to automate some tasks in the mainframe. Therefore it is used primarily in C/C++, C#, and Python. I used it with C (embedded software programming) and Python(for Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning.)
- Provides good UI/UX
- Runs fast thanks to its efficiency/small size
- Interface for plotting graphs (Matplotlib, Seaborn) can be improved.
- Installation of compilers can be made easier for the user.
December 17, 2019
Microsoft VS Code is a free and ultra-customizable text editor that delivers invaluable features
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is being used by our department as the official text editor for web development. As a team, we have used various text editors and IDEs in the past (e.g. NetBeans, Notepad++, Atom). I was personally apprehensive of using Microsoft Visual Studio Code because at the time (about a year ago from this review), I was still happy with Atom as my text editor of choice. After Microsoft acquired Github in 2018, I knew that it could mean that the support for Atom as Github's official text editor app could wind down as VS Code becomes the focus of the development efforts. I'm happy I made the decision to switch as soon as I heard the news. VS Code has all the features that made me fall in love with Atom and is continuously evolving with tremendous development support from Microsoft.
- The Extensions library is great and easy to use.
- The multi-cursor editing is a godsend.
- There was an instance when my installation got broken and VS Code wouldn't launch even after re-installation. I resorted to installing the Insiders version instead just to have VS Code in my machine.
- The settings/extensions sync-ing should be a built-in feature instead of an extension (Settings Sync).
December 09, 2019
Visual Studio Code: A Free Enterprise Grade Tool
Visual Studio Code is used by all our web development teams supporting different languages and file types. It is highly customized and has great features for collaboration. Easy git integration making it easier for the team to do frequent pushes to their branches.
- It is highly customizable (Languages, File types, colors schemes).
- Great git integration.
- It is free, and multi-platform, we use it on different Linux distributions, Mac and Windows.
- It has great support for scripting languages but for compiled languages there are some better alternatives.
- A curated plugin list would be nice, there is a rather solid plugin suggestion mechanism, but some of the more junior members end up with some flaky plugins sometimes.
- Configuration sync to some cloud so you can easily move stations.
Our whole Web Development team uses Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is the best open-source code editor out there. It allows us to cheaply replace an IDE with open source software, and an AppStore like suite of add-ons for enabling some pretty impressive features, all for free. You can even share code snippets across your team as a JSON file. We find this super useful. It helps our small team collaborate easier and get our Web Development work done. We use it for PHP, JS, JSON primarily, and love the extensions that help you read code easier or work faster with autocompletion of just about any coding language.
- It's free. There are tons of IDEs out there, and many of them very useful. For a small team at a small company, you may not need to pay a dime.
- Add-ons/extensions. There is a Microsoft Visual Studio Code Marketplace (free), where people create free extensions and add-ons with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code community. This is by far the best part about Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Our team uses extensions for autocompletion, highlighting colors in CSS/SCSS. I can't imagine coding without it now.
- Flexibility. It is highly customizable. Our whole team uses Microsoft Visual Studio Code, but each person has put their own personal touch on the look/feel extensions they use.
- Built-in dev tools. Native Git tools, terminal access built-in for MAC users, code linting and "prettifying" etc. Your senior dev can set the formatting for specific file types, and when saving the files, it will correct from someone who uses 2 spaces v 4 spaces v tabs based on rules that you set.
- Needs some work to set up like a true IDE, but for free, it's worth a few mins of grabbing extensions and customizing.
- For new coders/developers, they can go overboard with un-needed extensions, slowing down the code editor. Simple coaching can help with this.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is used by the entire organization, open-source integrated development for web applications. It helps us to develop an application using various languages, Python, JavaScript, using the various frameworks NodeJS, Angular and React.
- Visual Studio Code comes with many extensions which improves the development quality and saves lot of time.
- Git integration with the Visual Studio is awesome, helps us to improve our collaborative work.
- Search and replace functionality for the word is great and saves a lot of time.
- Great themes available that give a great look and feel for integrated development.
- File search functionality is very handy, helps me save a lot of time.
- Database integration feature with integrated development would be a great feature to add since that solves a lot of time during development.
- More extensions can be developed that will be used for the development community across multiple languages and framework.
- UI can be improved a lot so it helps the user navigate without much documentation help.
- Pattern matching feature can be integrated with integrated development, that can be handy sometimes.
- IDE can be made smarter using lots of automation features such as auto code complete, etc.
October 22, 2019
The Simplicity and Price of Visual Studio Code Make it the Preferred Web App Building Tool
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is being used in our organization by the IT Department, of which I am a member. I use VS Code to build web-based applications to satisfy the needs and requirements of our internal operations. These web-based apps fill a specific need in our organization that off-the-shelf software does not address. Thus, VS Code gives us a way to better utilize our IT infrastructure through building custom solutions to solve particular business challenges.
- It is a lightweight code editor.
- It makes it easy to build and test APIs and web apps locally.
- It is free, which means I can also develop apps on my own time and on my personal equipment in the same environment that I use for work.
- It does not deploy to IIS.
- It does not handle apps that require Windows authentication.
- It cannot be used for remote debugging.
November 25, 2019
Be more efficient with VS Code
I currently use it to develop a Laravel framework application.
- It has a lot of plugins.
- IDE is very well organized.
- Changing the settings is a little complicated.
All the developers in the department that I work with are using Visual Studio Code. As we develop in Oracle Apex, we have a bunch of SQL files to create objects and to insert data on applications. We also have files on a shell script that helps to build the applications for other environments. We can compile and create all the Oracle objects just using Visual Studio Code.
- Integration with Oracle.
- Lightweight.
- Extensions that boost your production.
- Updates frequently.
- You need to close and open the program again if you add a new Oracle connection.
- You need to save the file before executing it.
- It should have another type of output when executing select statements.
September 09, 2019
Excellent IDE suitable for almost every programming need
Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box for small and big code projects, but there are many plug-ins available to extend its functionality. There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month to improve the software and new features. A handy intergraded terminal readily available. For our projects is very fast and powerful.
- Integrated task runners
- Many plug-ins extensions available to extend its functionality
- Integrated Git control
- The autocomplete and code check could use more improvements.
- Running multiple instances of it at once can consume a lot of memory.
- Built-in documentation could use more improvements.
I am using it primarily as a replacement for Powershell ISE before that goes end-of-life. I am also using it as a general purpose text editor for cross-platform documentation (mostly in .MD format). Across the company it is not officially being used, but many developers are using it as a replacement for Visual Studio or other development environments, strictly on a personal preference basis.
- Wide array of powerful plugins.
- Native integration with GIT repositories
- Cross-Platform operations - I can use the same software with the same plugins on Linux, MAC, and Windows
- Lots of documentation on how to setup a specific environment (e.g. Using VSCode to replace Powershell ISE)
- Keymap support for most other editors - don't have to relearn the keyboard shortcuts anymore
- Feels "heavy" compared to most other text editors (Notepad++, TextPad, etc.)
- Many functions rely on extensions which are of varying quality
- Large number of plugins means required for many workflows means it is slower to load and function
August 15, 2019
Visual Studio Code---what's not to like?
My team uses Visual Studio Code as our primary code editor and IDE for developing a Drupal 8 website. Its combination of a text editor and integrated command shell make it a very convenient tool. Additionally, it has great plugins that add support for Git, Github, and Docker, etc., that make it so that you rarely have to leave it and use another tool in order to accomplish daily development tasks.
- Provides plugins that support virtually every language, file type, and code repository used for various disciplines of software development. I have yet to find anything that I use that it doesn't support.
- It remains fast and lightweight. It never feels bogged down no matter how many plugins or extensions I've added.
- It's constantly being updated to add new features or fix bugs.
- There's currently a bug that causes scrolling issues in small terminal windows when using Winpty, which is kind of annoying.
For our data team, to reduce budget, we use VS Code instead of the full version of Visual Studio. We use it with SQL Server Data Tools as well as for our analytics (Python) and light C# needs. While our Development Team uses Visual Studio Professional we have found on the Data team that VS Code is more than sufficient for our needs.
- Integration with SQL Server Data Tools
- Easy transition between the VS Environment, not a big learning curve
- Lightweight
- We have been able to fully integrate it in our CI processes and reduce licensing for other SQL Server products such as Red Gate Source Control
- Certain types of projects such as Database Projects, can cause problems
July 19, 2019
VS Code is the quickest and best editor available
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is by no means required by our organization, but many developers use it. Though I am but a lowly intern, most of my peers and immediate bosses use it to edit code, debug projects, and push to different repos. The added convenience of the VS Code plugins store allows for quick and rapid integration with different technologies, code checkers (such as jslint), and more. It's also free, so there is really no reason not to try it.
- It's insanely stable. I used to have problems with Atom (to be fair this was over 2 years ago) so I made the switch. Since, I can count the amount of times VS Code has crashed on one hand.
- It's lightweight and acts like it too. It's boot time is very quick.
- The support online is good - a lot of tutorials use it, so it's easy to follow along with.
- Debugging can be confusing depending on the language!
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Scorecard Summary
About Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.
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