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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.
December 05, 2019
Simple, easy to use tool
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.
November 28, 2019
The best studio platform
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
September 10, 2019
Great Source Code Editor
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.
December 17, 2019
The best IDE available
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.
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.
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.
November 07, 2019
Simple and Elegant IDE
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.
August 28, 2019
Microsoft Visual Studio Code: Cohesive Front End Development
Visual Studio Code is a great consolidation of features to make a seamless development environment. It is nice to be able to build, edit, and run programs from one integrated tool. The editor has integrated code completion and support for hundreds of languages. With the popularity of Node and Javascript in general, however, it has really been tailored to be the go-to development tool for those platforms.
- IntelliSense code completion
- Syntax highlighting
- Integrated terminal
- Built in scripting tools
- Cross-platform. Windows, Mac, Linux
- It's built on Javascript itself, so it can have trouble handling larger files.
- It is still a new product, and even with the backing of a behemoth like Microsoft, you will occasionally run into bugs here and there.
- It is not a true IDE so it lacks some of the tools from that kind of environment like scaffolding and Microsoft's Team Foundation Server
From developing code to managing commits on GitHub, Microsoft Visual Studio Code saves the day.
One of the best platform to develop in that provides multiple plugins for making life simple. Whatever language you need, Microsoft Visual Studio Code will support it for sure and if not, there will be multiple plugins for the same. There is code completion, error highlights, code suggestions, syntax highlights, and an inbuilt console. It is really a developers dream. Used almost by every developer and is appreciated by everyone.
One of the best platform to develop in that provides multiple plugins for making life simple. Whatever language you need, Microsoft Visual Studio Code will support it for sure and if not, there will be multiple plugins for the same. There is code completion, error highlights, code suggestions, syntax highlights, and an inbuilt console. It is really a developers dream. Used almost by every developer and is appreciated by everyone.
- Syntax highlighting, code completions.
- Plugins for various additional support and extending its functionality.
- GitHub Integration.
- Error when handling and inbuilt console.
- Some plugins are not easy to configure.
- Sometimes when using auto format plugin, it makes code behave improperly. It adds additional line breaks in areas not needed.
- Initially a bit difficult to understand how some functions work.
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.
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
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!
We use Visual Studio Code as a secondary code editor and general text editor. It has a good balance of quick text editing and some IDE functionality. It is quick enough to edit plain text, JSON, XML, etc, or to use as a scratch pad, and it works as a lightweight code editor for scripts or snippets as well.
- Quick text editing with syntax highlighting.
- Explorer shell integration (right click -- Open with Code).
- Open entire folders for working on projects (ie git repo).
- Lots of plugins to support source control, build tools, etc.
- Remembers last session, including unsaved files.
- Default keyboard shortcuts are unfamiliar to anyone used to other IDEs and text editors.
- Git integration is minimal, and barely worth using over command line.
- Live Sharing is a great idea but needs a lot of work, especially with multiple panels.
June 15, 2019
Visual Studio Code is the little IDE that could
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Code to write cross-platform web applications. It is being used within my department and addresses the issue of installing/purchasing the full Visual Studio IDE, as well as being cross-platform.
- Very small footprint/installation package, and it can be downloaded/installed in under 10 minutes.
- It is a full-featured IDE and can be run on multiple operating systems.
- It is open-source and has a great community that is continually making updates and extensions.
- It could use some improvement in the Debug side.
- It could also use improvement with Nuget and other source control sources.
- It needs improvement if you're planning to develop Windows Form-based applications.
May 10, 2019
A bigger, better editor than Atom
Visual Studio Code is the first Microsoft app I've used and really loved. It provides a clean interface for writing code, and the extension/community is very helpful in adding functionality that speeds up my workflow. I primarily use it for writing React apps via GatsbyJS. The autocomplete features are handy in minimizing the amount of typing I have to do. It works well with a widescreen monitor, because you can quickly drag your tabs into different panes.
- Clean, minimal interface
- Great community and extension library
- Autocomplete speeds up your workflow
- I wish there was a way to have tab groups of commonly-opened files, because the tab bar quickly overflows
- I don't like the "Open editors" list on top of my directories—it's redundant (the tab bar shows the same thing)
- The code view scrollbar is annoying because it's too tiny to show anything, and should be removed. The regular scrollbar is sufficient.
March 26, 2019
Visual Studio Code for Speed and ROI
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is currently in use by a number of cross-platform developers. We traditionally use Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac or other non-Microsoft development projects. We utilize this tool a lot for front end development. This Tool allows us to quickly and easily collaborate across a wide section of cross-platform developers.
- Ease of startup and use.
- Only need the packages you are working on and do not need to install a number of useless items.
- Very lightweight and fast to use due to its modular setup.
- Installing packages is sometimes a bit convoluted.
- Keeping other developers in sync with the 3rd party tools.
- Git integration is lacking.
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.
Categories: Text Editors
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