TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Visual Studio Code are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Ease of Use: Reviewers have praised Visual Studio Code for its intuitive user interface, straightforward operation, and ease of navigation across different programming languages. Users find it simple to use and switch between tasks efficiently.
Extensive Plugin Support: Users have appreciated the vast array of extensions available for Visual Studio Code, offering diverse functionalities and catering to a wide range of development requirements effectively. The availability of numerous plugins enhances the overall coding experience.
Stability and Reliability: Customers have highlighted the software's consistent stability, reliability, and seamless performance even when managing extensive workspaces or handling intricate coding tasks. The solid performance ensures a smooth workflow without interruptions.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code Reviews
18 Reviews
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We use Microsoft Visual Studio Code mainly to develop in Java and Apache Camel. Very recently we have added Github Copilot extension and we are very satisfied in the way it is embedded and the many situations where it help us by asking questions and getting very precise answers (issue troubleshooting) and by getting proposals in terms of lines of code.
Pros
Text formatting
Wide number of extensions
Quick to launch
Efficient consuming PC resources
Cons
Frankly speaking, trying to come up with some improvements I struggle to find something for my daily use. Perhaps, documentation is not pretty clear when configuring file settings.json, you need to dig a bit on the internet to find the solution
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is perfectly well suited if you want to code in Java. It is well supported and provides lots of Java extensions (extension pack for java, debugger for java, maven for java...). Apart from coding, it helps you debugging and you can run your program in a embedded server.
Visual Code Studio is used in my organization for development operations like coding, debugging, sharing code, using git clone thorough it. It is completely used by all of us for writing code and do practice on it. It is a code editor which helps in getting error easily in fact it shows it shows error during writing code and also recommend best way to write code. It is used also for deployment also. All files can be opened and used. We can use terminal also to run.
Pros
Shows error while writing code.
Provide Terminal to run the code
Various package available
Different languages supports like python, java, c, c++.
Cons
supports different technology
split view
git integration
provide instruction on each piece of code
Likelihood to Recommend
VS Code editor makes it easier to write code. Whenever we type any code, it shows error if code contains error, this is the best part. It also provides live server to show output. we can have different package that is to be imported and installed. this allows to use different features to use. No of extension of different can also be used.
Visual Studio Code has been really helpful to me, allowing me to utilize my time more effectively and accomplish the task, more thanks to its simple interfaces and strong integrations. I use this tool for analyzing the code and fixing the bug, more useful when it comes to resolve the compiler errors before going for the build. Highlights syntax errors while coding, which pretty much saves the time for compiling the code again and again.
Pros
Great UI
Extension feasibility
Error findings
Cons
Consumes more battery power
Sometimes it hangs
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Visual Code is well suited for developing the code with error free and with proper indentation. We can easily analyse the code. Helps to connect with version control tool. With the help of extensions we can easily find the difference between the commits and analyze our changes for any bug fix or some analysis.
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 5. Manage Docker containers 6. Version Control like commit ,push ,merge etc. 7.Increase my productivity with extension like rest client , themes code coverage tools
Pros
Source Control
Test and debug code
Code formatting
Display Errors
Cons
Theme
Shortcuts
Navigation
Guide
Likelihood to Recommend
1. VS Code is best for writing code , it has auto save feature 2. Source control is top notch easy to view commits , push , create branch change branch merge branch 3. Writing test code and testing it. 4. Want cool extensions to increase the productivity 5. Manage and access Docker containers 6. Search something in code and replace it
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, it enables us to integrate debugger, lint, build, and publishing tools. It even comes with a huge set of plugins, which makes it superior! It supports almost every language, but if a language is not supported or if it's missing you can add it.
Pros
It helps us write code without errors.
It also helps us with building and testing code on the fly and deploying code locally.
It's better than any other paid or free IDE/Text Editor.
Cons
I didn't find any problem with using VSCode.
Yes, there were some bug in the previous release, but now those are fixed.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's open-source and has a very big community. Plugins are available for almost every language/framework to lint, build, and test code. UI/UX looks premium. Last but not least, it's free! It is well suited to us and there is not any scenario where it is not appropriate. I would recommend everyone to use it.
We use Visual Studio Code as an alternative to our main IDE in the company. With the new features and progression of the IDE lately, we accept it as a same-value alternative for any coding task. We use VSCode for education purposes as well, and as a built-in IDE in browser-based examples during lectures. Visual Studio Code personalization and plugins are widely used in our company.
Pros
Code compilation.
Low resource-costs.
Highly customizable.
Fast programming and debugging experience.
Cons
Performance bottlenecks.
Third party plugin loading sometimes crash.
Navigation options.
Likelihood to Recommend
As it is very easy to install, completely free, and very intuitive overall, it's really good for beginner programmers. Highly customizable, easy to use, and has tons of quality of life improvements to serve as a serious IDE as well. This is one of the two, maybe three IDEs we use for any web-based programming (but not only just for those). Visual Studio Code is one of the de-facto IDE you should use in 2021.
Microsoft Visual Studio [Code] is currently being used to develop our internal system and clients database. Through it, we maintain our current software and develop new features as required by the operations team, and as the business changes through time. All personnel uses the applications being developed using Visual Studio.
Pros
Easy to use user interface.
Good integration to code repositories.
Cood integration with third party components.
Cons
Integration to new Git repositories can be better.
Likelihood to Recommend
[Microsoft Visual Studio Code] is very flexible and you can code in your preferred language, from C, C++, C# to Visual Basic. It integrates well to third party developed components that make your coding faster. The programs that can be coded using Visual Studio can be run on desktops (Windows Forms), browsers (ASP.NET) or on servers as command line routines. If you are lacking development time and monetary resources to buy components, there maybe other development frameworks that could suit your business better.
Software engineers in our organization use Visual Studio Code by their own choice, and usually to develop software as per their job requirements. Although, our engineering department makes available licenses for full-fledged IDEs like IntelliJ RubyMine for that purpose, many developers choose editors like Code because of its lightweight nature and extensibility.
Pros
It is fast and snappy in most cases, unlike IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse etc.) that take quite a lot of time to start up and are sluggish even during use (including on high-end Macbook Pros).
It provides great and top-notch support for a huge number of languages and web development frameworks. This support is either built-in or provided using first-party (Microsoft) or third-party extensions. E.g. Microsoft provides its own extension for Python, and Golang provides an official Visual Studio Code extension.
Microsoft keeps continuously improving Code with new features and performance improvements.
Cons
Unlike for most languages I have used, Ruby and Rails support available for Code users isn't great. The most popular Ruby extension is unofficial, and leaves much to desire. As an example, code navigation even with language server Solargraph installed isn't as good as IntelliJ's RubyMine.
Even there is quite good support for a language or a framework, it is almost never as good as a dedicated IDE for it. In terms of the sheer number of features available, IntelliJ IDEs handily beat Code.
Microsoft has close-sourced some of the extensions it develops for Code itself, e.g. Pylance for Python, and that has not been perceived as a good move for open-source.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want a snappy text editor that can handle almost any language you throw at it, provides decent code navigation, is not memory-intensive and can do without advanced support for your particular language that you would expect from an IDE, you should go for it. Keep in mind that even if you like IDEs more, you may end up paying a lot for your subscription, while Visual Studio Code is free.
IDE choice is entirely up to engineers' personal preference within my organisation, but an overwhelming majority of my colleagues choose to use Microsoft Visual Studio Code. The quality of the editor in itself is fantastic to start with, but when combined with plugins (of which there are many in the ecosystem) it becomes truly invaluable for us in maintaining code quality and speeding up development through its various in-built and extended features. This means that coding can remain pretty consistent amongst engineers (at least in terms of conventions) and that configuration in certain languages and projects can be shared and enforced with relative ease, for example when linting various filetypes.
Pros
Free, quick and easy to install
Extensive plugin ecosystem and support
Extensible in configuration and personalisation
Personal settings can easily be synced to a personal or group source code management platform
Intuitive to use
Cons
Some plugins can be inconsistent in quality
Performance can be affected with many plugins running (especially linting or hinting)
Can be a bit of a "one size fits all" rather than specialised
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is suitable for almost any coding needs, though it is specifically best for web-based projects. As far as I'm aware is very commonly geared towards the relatively recent explosion in javascript, TypeScript and similar languages, with some other competitors possibly being more suitable for lower-level languages (e.g. Java, C# etc). Certainly a lot of the plugin ecosystem appears to centre around frontend language features for the various languages and frameworks, this is generally what I personally use it for, and so I don't know with any great confidence that it's particularly unsuitable for other languages, rather that I've not used it for other purposes. I generally would, and have, recommend Microsoft Visual Studio Code to any web engineer who is not already using it.
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.
Pros
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
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are already very comfortable and invested in one of VSCode's "competitors" such as Sublime Text or Atom, I suggest you just stay on that. They are still pretty good and VSCode isn't THAT much better to make the effort to switch. However, if you aren't tight with ST3 or Atom already and you use a dynamically typed language, then definitely hop on the train! VSCode is the future for all developers using JS, Python, etc. What if you're backend? Do you love or hate all the heavy weight features of Eclipse or IntelliJ? If they are getting in your way, I suggest you switch to VSCode, which is way more lightweight and not overwhelming to use.
