Microsoft Visual Studio Code Reviews & Ratings 2024

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What is 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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Visual Studio Code - happy coding

9 out of 10

July 12, 2023

It is a mighty and lightweight IDE which never seen. It supports almost all the languages. It has extensive verities of extensions for …

One of the best code editors

8 out of 10

January 17, 2023

Visual Studio Code has been really helpful to me, allowing me to utilize my time more effectively and accomplish the task, more thanks to …

Awesome IDE for Developers

8 out of 10

December 15, 2022

Visual Code Studio is used in my organization for development operations like coding, debugging, sharing code, using git clone thorough …

Unrivaled extensibility makes VS Code indispensable for application developers.

9 out of 10

August 30, 2022

Incentivized

I use [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code as a web application developer performing a variety of programming tasks. As a solo consultant and in …

VS Code is the quickest and best editor available

10 out of 10

August 22, 2022

Incentivized

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 …

VS Code - You will love it

10 out of 10

April 30, 2022

1. Writing day-to-day code 2. running and debugging my Flutter apps 3. Write Test code for my projects 4. Access remote host via pem file …

An exceptional tool for developers

9 out of 10

January 24, 2022

Being an IT company, our organization needs to develop various lines of code every day to develop our clients' products. Writing codes in …

Best IDE/TextEditor I've seen

9 out of 10

December 20, 2021

VSCode makes it easier to write code. Whenever you make a syntax error or a typo it warns you immediately, which is really awesome! Also, …

The only script editor you'll ever need

9 out of 10

November 07, 2021

Incentivized

When it comes to a script editing, you can't go past Visual Studio, I've tried others but Visual Studio has the best features and it just …

"Microsoft Visual Code is the best IDE for every programmer!"

9 out of 10

October 26, 2021

Our company provides web-based applications, mobile applications, and graphic designs. Mostly we are using Microsoft Visual Studio Code …

Best IDE for wide range of problems

9 out of 10

September 27, 2021

It's [the] best lightweight code editor used by most developers in all departments.

Visual Studio Code - the best, free IDE for JavaScript projects

9 out of 10

September 17, 2021

Incentivized

We used Microsoft Visual Studio Code to handle many of our JavaScript projects. Visual Studio Code is much more suited to Single Page …

VS Code - Perfectly tailor made tool for developers

9 out of 10

July 14, 2021

Incentivized

Visual Studio Code is a default editor for the developer groups who are working mostly on Python, Javascript, Docker, C++ and PowerShell …

Amazing tool that fills nearly all your needs!

10 out of 10

July 06, 2021

Incentivized

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is used by our developers on projects of many different language types. It is used when building .Net Core …

Microsoft Visual Studio Code - ultimate development environment

9 out of 10

June 30, 2021

Incentivized

Currently our department is using Microsoft Visual Studio Code as the main tool for the development of programs and systems that help meet …

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Light weight take less time to start ide
Dubugger is complex based on applications

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Banking Company, 501-1000 employees

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Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
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Mobile Application	No

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Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code starts at $0.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Microsoft Visual Studio Code are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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January 25, 2021

Great IDE in the market with wide language support

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is widely used for development purposes and can be used by front end developers as well as a backed team.
Supported multiple languages such as:

JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML,CSS
Python
PHP
C/C# and many more

It always updates the security features regularly and has broad support from Microsoft.
Mainly our developers & QA support team are using it since it has vast language support.

Pros and Cons

Supports multiple languages such as C/C#,Python, JavaScript etc.
Has support for built-in plugins.
Easy customization for team requirements.
Smart sense for completing and detecting code.

Poor interface and it took time to figure it out the feature.
Crash and closed automatically during the coding.
Doesn't have enough support for Front End coding such as HTML,Css. Should have live view during coding in the window itself.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is best for coding purposes and it is easy to debug while coding. It is flexible and I personally use it for JavaScript.
However, although it supports HTML,Css, due to its complexity it is very difficult to use it for Front end coding.
Auto detection is a good feature in it and I will recommend it to my friends for other languages, except for web development.
It would be great if it provided smoother support for web development.

Return on Investment

Really good for smoother development. Will make the coding faster and will help in reaching deadlines easier.
No extra investment is required since we can install it directly from their website.
Not good for web development. Better go for the alternative approach

Alternatives Considered

Notepad++, Atom, Sublime Text and Brackets

Earlier I was using Adobe Dreamweaver since web pages are easier to make in it. However, due to high cost I switched to Brackets, Sublime Text, and then Visual Studio Code. While it lacks few things, currently due to regular updates and vast community support, it comes out to be better than the rest. It supports plugins and themes which is also used by large community as well. So you trust the features can be used without hesitation.

Other Software Used

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Easy Tasks

Auto populating is the great feature which can detect classes and other tags
Easy to sort out the functions, classes

Difficult Tasks

I feel it is very difficult to find and replace feature and to replace in the folder, one need to upload the whole folder.
Multiple window in one page can lead to many confusion. It could be better.

Usability

It has a small learning curve and one needs to have hands on to use it in a smoother way.
Features are really good but those features are hidden with icons and placed at inappropriate places which makes the IDE complex.Find and replace feature could be better and one can find the words by using the link only as it is in the Dreamweaver.

June 11, 2019

GOD of IDEs

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft visual studio code is used by developers in our organization. It is mainly used for java scripts apps like Angular, Reactive. This IDE is open source and provides rich features. Syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and code refactoring is easy. Debug is so simple with this IDE. Also, it provides so many extensions. It's extremely fast.

Pros and Cons

Performance is quite good. It's fast.
Debug feature is awesome. Easy to add debug points, no need to add manual console print.
Auto-completion and syntax highlighting help a lot.
There are so many extensions available like html hint, js, docker, es lint, angular, yaml. Good thing is these extensions do not cause slowness.
This IDE can be used for most of the programming language, so there is one tool for all developers across the organization.

The search feature can be enhanced. I use eclipse for Java, so I believe search features can be enhanced like Eclipse.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is well suited for most of the programming languages. It's fast, easy to use, lightweight. Extensions are helpful. Github integration is awesome. Autocomplete helps developers a lot. Plugins support is good.

Return on Investment

Microsoft Visual Studio Code helped in quick development. It's open source so no investment.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is fast so helped developers in delivering quality code.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code supports almost all programming languages so enables the organization to use one IDE across the organization. Support and knowledge sharing is easy.

Alternatives Considered

Atom

I used Atom before using Visual Studio Code. Atom is slow, has higher memory usage and crashes sometimes.
Also, Visual Studio Code has thousands of extensions in comparison to Atom. Atom is not suitable for slow or old computers.

Products Replaced

Yes

Microsoft Visual Studio Code replaces IDE such as Atom or sublime. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is fast and provides rich features in comparison to Atom or Sublime. The same IDE for all developers helped in knowledge sharing and uniformity.