Eclipse vs. Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Eclipse

390 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

908 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Eclipse	Score9.2 out of 10	N/A	Eclipse is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE).	N/A
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.	$0

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Eclipse

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Pricing Offerings
Eclipse	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	Eclipse	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Considered Both Products	Open Source Eddie Galvez Chief Architect in Engineering at Tibco (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Eclipse IntelliJ is a good IDE as well. Any motivated user can't go wrong focusing on one and then deeply learning it, and it will pay off in productivity. Note of course that one is free the other is not! I find Eclipse is stronger at managing very large projects. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Visual Studio is a better solution for larger applications and organizations. Eclipse is free and good for small companies/applications. VS also integrated well with the Microsoft environment. However, Eclipse is not tied to any environment and can be used with multiple OS … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse stands out with its feature set, reliability, and being completely free of charge. I have previously used NetBeans but had reliability issues with it, at least on Windows version. IDEA has modern UI and is significantly more user friendly than Eclipse; however, the free … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse [In my opinion,] Eclipse is the worst IDE for java right now. Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse is far better than NetBeans. But when compared to IntellijIdea Eclipse is a good choice when it comes to handling large projects and costs. Eclipse has room to improve on its UI and IntelliSense. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse As previously said, Eclipse is one of the most complete and useful tools for Java development. And as a plus, it's open-source and free, so you won't beat that price-quality relation. When starting with Java projects, you won't fail with Eclipse. But, if you are getting into … Incentivized Helpful? Rajshekhar Sahu Student in Information Technology at Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Bhoapl India (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Eclipse As compared to NetBeans, Eclipse is much faster. NetBeans needs to have JDK 1.8 which sometimes creates problems if your system already has a higher version installed, besides it has a glassfish server which is hard to configure. Integration of MySQL or other database is … Incentivized Helpful? Bob Smith Co-Founder, President, CTO in Corporate at Infofree Sales Leads \| Business Lists \| Person Search & CRM101 (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse beats all other Java IDEs in my honest opinion. I've tried NetBeans (among others) in the past for Java projects, but didn't see the same value which Eclipse provides. I have moved over to Visual Studio Code for Node.js, React Native and other JavaScript specific … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse First thing, Eclipse is free. So zero cost as compared to other alternatives. Eclipse has tons of tools/plugins for better development/testing, helping devs, making their lives easier. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse I think Eclipse is best for Java while the other products, for example, NetBeans, is good for PHP. Visual Studio is really good for C#. I would still say Eclipse is really good overall, but awesome for Java developers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Eclipse could be replaced by NetBeans or WebStorm, but these last two don't have an ABAP development tools plugin (not that I know of at least). Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse offers all the features in the other IDEs but without any cost. It also is memory efficient as compared to other IDEs. Various themes are available in eclipse and we can customize it according to our needs very easily. The Windows Toolkit allows us to build desktop … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Visual Studio Code can also be used for CDS development. It is quite lightweight and useful when developing for web environments. Eclipse however, has an ABAP environment as well as the HANA tools. This makes Eclipse (in my opinion) a better solution for a more well-rounded … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Hightower IT Admin in Information Technology at Gateway Preparatory Academy (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Eclipse These are all very similar in what they can do, and so they all stack up very similarly. I personally have found that Eclipse did a little bit better when it came to programming with java and so that is why we went with it for the classes coding in Java. Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse is the best IDE on the market for Java development. It has great error and warning handling, and many integrations with useful tools - debugger, sonarqube (static code analysis), Maven / Gradle / Ant, Tomcat / Wildfly / JBoss (web servers). The best part of eclipse is … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Davies Senior Web Application Developer in Information Technology at City of Portland (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Eclipse Eclipse has features like debugging and integrated code repositories that Notepad++ doesn't have. VS Code wasn't around when we started using Eclipse, but now that I've started using it for a Drupal project, I would strongly consider switching from Eclipse to VS Code because … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse For no license, Eclipse is a very good start. IntelliJ has much greater support and tools for many things like connecting to all kinds of databases and SaaS platform such as Salesforce. Code refactoring is also very cool on IntelliJ compared to Eclipse. For Python and Django … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Eclipse Because it has amazing debugging functionalities that helps you to write well- tested and efficient reusable code. Ease of installation of Eclipse is very easy and has documentation which helps. It has great tools to work with XML and thus helps in creating schemas for various … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Carlos Rizzo Software Engineer in Engineering at SICPA (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code The other IDE that I use is Eclipse. Comparing both, Microsoft Visual Studio Code it clearly wins in resource consuming. I can have open many instances of Microsoft Visual Studio Code and the memory ram usage it doesn't go very high. Another point where I prefer Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Far better than Eclipse IDE. Eclipse takes so much space, and it is slow. Whereas Vs Code IDE is so fast and having good UI as compared to Eclipse. I help to work efficiently and is also highlight the syntax in good way by recommending in editor. Microsoft Visual Studio Code … Incentivized Helpful? Bimal Subedi Software Engineer in Information Technology at VSARV (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a combined form of the above-mentioned products i.e. one product, many applications. Eclipse is suitable for java development, PyCharm is mainly for Python development whereas Android Studio is for Android applications development but in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code There are many IDEs available but I don't think anyone is better than Visual Studio Code. Most others are language dependent softwares while VS Code supports all the languages. There are others popular available like Atom, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and WebStorm but none of them … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code wins hands down when it comes to light, easy, free yet super powerful. This is the perfect balance for that. If you need to manage a complete end to end project with team collaboration I would recommend Visual Studio IDE or Eclipse if you need to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Compared against a lot of other popular IDEs, I would say that VSCode is the perfect balance between complexity, language support, etc, for web languages. It's faster than most (though not quite as fast as native ones like Notepad++ or Sublime Text), and very flexible. Even in … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mason Lead Developer in Engineering at SaaSquatch (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I've used Eclipse and NetBeans for Java development and VS Code was easily competitive with NetBeans but I still haven't found the development experience to be as good as Eclipse when working with Java. I've also used the Visual Studio IDE for C# development and have generally … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern in Product Management at Bandwidth Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Davies Senior Web Application Developer in Information Technology at City of Portland (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code As a long-time former Eclipse user, Visual Studio Code feels like a breath of fresh air. It's modern, fast, and lightweight. Eclipse feels big, bloated, and slow. I've occasionally had issues with my Eclipse installation becoming corrupted, or had plugin compatibility issues … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio code UI is very handy. Extension feasibility is good Incentivized Helpful? Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect at Infostretch (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I think VS Code is much better as compared to all the tools mentioned above. Just waiting for its support for iOS and Android development. currently, it misses support for them. That's where you will require Xcode and Android Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos in Legal at Corte Suprema de Justicia (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code All the previously listed are incredible development environments that perfectly fulfill this function, but [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code goes one step ahead by providing flexibility, customization and adaptability to development environments with its own methodology, for all … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA in Information Technology at HASH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code When you start using [Microsoft Visual Studio Code], it lands more on the "text editor" side of the spectrum, akin to Vim/Emacs/Sublime. Aligned with this, it's fast and easy to install and setup, and competes with the best of them as a great general purpose tool. But then it … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is one of the peak engineering tools you can use today on the market. It's one of the most advanced IDE, and, currently, a de-facto top-used IDE. This alone should be proof to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Tharsanan Kurukulasingam Software Engineer in Information Technology at Enactor (pvt) ltd (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code When it comes to UI and light weightiness, Visual Code is the winner. But when it comes to Intelli-Sense and autosuggestion IntelliJ works better in my view. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code User interface and integration to other tools is very straightforward and easy to use. You can find [third] party [development components] very easy for Microsoft. You can code a variety of applications using the same framework without installing any plugins or extensions (Web … Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft provides regular update patches to the Visual Studio Code IDE making sure to prevent vulnerabilities. As compared to other editors as mentioned, it is not open source but free to use, which means only certified update patches can be applied to the IDE, whereas in open … Incentivized Helpful? Hareesh Madasi Associate Engineer at TEK Systems (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I found it very easy and a far better way to run the code and test as it will reflect the changes just by saving the code. We can run the commands required directly here. And we can push the code to GitHub or any source version controllers or even clone from the server. Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Pansare Web Developer in Information Technology at TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It's faster than Sublime Text and Atom. I used to use Atom and shifted to Microsoft Visual Studio Code one to two years back. I've never used any other editor after using Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Atom's installation is long and painful compared to Studio Code's. The … Incentivized Helpful? Gregory Pecqueur Développeur Web Full Stack MEAN LAMP in Information Technology at digitalAtelier (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is lightweight. The community is important and grows every day. It is easily configured. It works perfectly on our Linux workstations. The other IDE mentioned do not combine all these advantages. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It's light weight, merely 50 MB in Linux still very powerful in terms of file searching, code formatting. VS Code Git integration is superb, I am in love with this feature, line by line code difference and Git UI interface makes version management amazingly fast. Incentivized Helpful?
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TrustRadius Insights
	Eclipse	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published February 5, 2024 Many users have found Eclipse to be a robust Integrated Development Environment (IDE) primarily used for Java projects. They’ve appreciated its vast array of plugins and tools, specifically designed to aid in Java development. Users have also noted its use in developing applications in other programming languages such as C/C++, PHP, and Ruby, implying its versatility. Microsoft Visual Studio Code, on the other hand, has been frequently utilized by users for a wide variety of different programming languages, including but not limited to JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js. Customers have appreciated its speed and performance, especially for larger projects. They’ve also highlighted its built-in Git commands and debugging features which they’ve found useful across different use-cases. Users have valued its flexibility in being able to handle various types of projects, from web development to data science applications.

User Ratings
	Eclipse	Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Likelihood to Recommend	7.7 (73 ratings)	8.6 (90 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.4 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	8.5 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	6.8 (19 ratings)	9.7 (23 ratings)