VS Code is the quickest and best editor available
Updated August 22, 2022
VS Code is the quickest and best editor available
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Visual Studio Code
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!
- It's free and a lot of people use it. I imagine it's positive! I am an intern, though, so I am not sure.
VS Code is much more lightweight than IntelliJ and Eclipse and is certainly comparable to Atom. I find that for most of my projects, VS Code is the most stable option, and is generally the quickest to boot. Generally, trying out all four can't hurt, but VS Code has been the most consistent for my own usage.