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Visual Studio Code Overview

What is Visual Studio Code?

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

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Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.


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5.0 out of 5
"Bon éditeur de code."
Facile à utiliser, beaucoup d’extensions utiles et fonctionne bien avec Git.
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"An Amazing Code Editor for Developers"
Visual Studio Code is my favorite code editor. The most important thing is that it is lightweight and has so many powerful features.Because of that...
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5.0 out of 5
"Most versatile IDE for multiple coding language"
This is like the best IDE out there that supports multiple coding languages. It's so easy to integrate different coding languages using their exten...
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Hrithik S.
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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

VS Code provides support for all programming languages with the autofill and suggestion features . It is extremly easy to use and can be integrated with GitHub directly to provide easier functionality ot maintain projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There are no downsides of VS Code in general . It is extremly sufficient to use with all required features and functionality. Ont feature that my need to be added is the multiple profiles feature, as currently we can only login with a single account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

VS Code is mostly used for coding and programming and it helps out a ton to give faster experience with its suggestions features and autofill code. It enables us to code efficiently with identfying errors easily and provide easy debugging. Traditionally learning all functions was quite difficult and VS Code solved this problem by providing all available functions in suggestions with descriptions to enable faster and efficient coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Firstly it's Free and open source for coders.

It has vast library extensions that I love very much.It gives auto suggestions.. and work on windows, Mac os ,Linux as well , best for beginners to code as interface is clean and simple... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

There is nothing as such i don't like about vs code.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps address many problems like simple navigation, debugging the code, unlimited extensions provided and time consuming.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Intuitive UI, a wide range of plugins, and customizability with plugins. it can connect to a remote machine with actual code and you access it on your machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

updates are very frequent. when you are working on code, you don't want to update vs code frequently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

writing code. it makes it easy to integrate with any code versioning system like git, p4 etc. it makes it ease/fast to browse the code. integration with git copilot helps to review the code for basic to advance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best part I like about Visual Studio Code is its Interface and the best part is Extensions, there are so many extensions that can integrate different services and themes. VS code gives so much customization you can make it as you want to see the code that wont put stress on eyes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

As of now its the best IDE for me so I didn't see any cons , but yeah they can make things more accessible on screen rather then making them hidden under dropdowns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

Code customization is easier can choose different type of themes, Can add different extensions that increases productivity and code generation that saves time for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The best part about using Visual Studio code as a text editor is the ease of writing code using different extensions provided. Other than that it provides a GUI method to commit and push repositories to version control systems like Github. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

The only thing which one can be concerned about is that it is not effective in low grade systems. It requires good or average specifications for efficient working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

Comparing it with other text editors it is providing plenty of extra utilities which helps the developers. The extensions are so good which suggests the code to be written, the GUI interface for managing git commands are some of the things which has benifited me alot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is the best code editor, it comes with different customisation options. It supports all the various programming languages. Provide a user-friendly UI, so beginners can easily develop web applications. It provides different plugins for themes, font, autocorrection, auto-completion etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Big projects take time to install dependencies and run the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

Visual Studio Code is the best code editor. I use it in my daily tasks because its UI is the best and most customisable. Also Visual Studio Code supports various programming languages. It has many features and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

Very easy to use , friendly UI , Easy access to github Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I havent found any downside of this app but sometimes it stop responding when i open multiple projects at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to edit my code and its AI feature helps to write code more faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

The Visual studio code very easy to use. I like all the extensions available. All the languages I use for development like Java, python, powershell are supported by VS code. I don't live a day without using Vs code. The customer support is best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

I need more customization in themes and colors of Vs code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping to build solutions required in my role. I'm currently working on python projects and I have also installed the Gen Ai tool extensions like Amazon Code Whisperer and Github copilot. This has increased my productivity. The VS code eneables me to concentrate on my work with all the support for other tools.

I am developing GenAI based solutions for my organization. And VS code is important part of my life while developing the solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

- VS code is user friendly IDE

- I can easily setup my project

- I can aslo customize my workspce with many theme and extensions which is best part that i like most

- It has internal terminal i can debug my code easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

Sometimes if i am working with high leval project vs code performance will be go down its challenging for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

- I can easily run, debug, test my code in one IDE

- It is provide many inbulid extensions which can be easily set up my project in just one click.

- I can setup my workspace as i needed

- Help to improve my productivity

- Also it is provide auto completion & syntax highlighter which best while developing large project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Visual Studio Code?

1. I have been using VS code from over a decade now and I truly love its feature set and never faced any complication whatsoever to develop different web and mobile app projects.

2. It offers different extensions and plugin to ease the overall workflow which saves time significantly and a very good example of it can be to import any Github repository directly into VS code along with other CI/CD pipelines that can be created through VS code, and its version control aspect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Visual Studio Code?

1. I sometimes doesn't work on my windows machine and that's the reason I had to purchase a MacOS where it run seamlessly I don't know why is that.

2. VS code can be resource intensive while running big project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Visual Studio Code solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am IT professional and VS code helps me a lot in reviewing code and testing them before actually deploying it on a staging server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.