Microsoft Visual Studio Code vs. Sublime Text

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

908 Reviews and Ratings

Sublime Text

207 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Sublime Text	Score9.8 out of 10	N/A	Sublime Text is a highly customizable text editing solution featuring advanced API, Goto functions, and other features, from Sublime HQ in Sydney.	$80

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Sublime Text
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Sublime Text
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code prior to Visual Studio Code, I was using Sublime Text, which was not the most effective in terms of third-party libraries and complex debugging, so I switched to Visual Studio Code where I got a positive as a developer. it is having all the features and third-party libraries to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code While Sublime Text, another free alternative, is faster and snappier than Code, the extensions that are available on it are sub-par (it doesn't even have an official extension store). This makes using it for any serious work unpleasant, at least to me. IntelliJ's dedicated IDEs … 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? John Crumpton Technical Director (CTO) in Corporate at Doublesided (Design, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We moved from Sublime Text. Microsoft Visual Studio Code has similar features, such as a mini view of the document along the right side. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is also freeware. Sublime Text is $80 per seat, so when you add team members the costs increase. 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? Keegan Gladstone Software Developer in Engineering at DataHouse (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I used Sublime Text in my introductory years for its syntax highlighting and some customization support. Atom quickly grew to a more powerful IDE with their ability for extensions so that was an easy change. I found that Atom didn't run as reliably as I had hoped, and had … Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer in Information Technology at IRISS, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Overall, compared to all other open source text editors like Sublime Text, Vim, etc, I've noticed that the Visual Studio Code has been updated regularly which makes it work more efficiently and resolves any bugs on a continuous basis. I feel like VS Code has the speed like Subli… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Sublime Text is strictly a text editor and it is the most robust around in my opinion. It is better than Microsoft Visual Studio Code in this respect, but VS Code has other tools that make using it more streamlined. Brackets has a bit of the weakness of VS Code and Sublime … 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? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code provides more flexibility and supports easy integration to different platforms (including cloud). It is more modular and lighter application as compared to other integrated development environments. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is easy to learn and … 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? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code [Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Every IDE has almost the same features but being lightweight is a plus point for the IDE so that you can run on any hardware with good speed. VS Code has ultimate features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code In all honesty, I've not even looked back at any of these alternatives since switching to Microsoft Visual Studio Code a few years ago, there simply isn't the need. For all I know they're all absolutely fantastic, but at the time of switching (and consistently since) Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code stacks up favorably against PhpStorm for developing PHP- and JS-based web projects. In our company, developers generally choose from one of these two applications, based primarily on personal taste. Both are great for development and debugging our … Incentivized Helpful? Saad Moumen Software Engineer in Information Technology at Cheuvreux (Legal Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code The main plus for me was the speed, sleek UI, and the memorable shortcuts for VS Code. Also the smart auto-complete as well as version management (Git), Chrome debugging, and the possibility of plugging in multiple language-specific linters for a better code. The auto-complete … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code does everything better than the previously mentioned software; it improves visual code and overall application visualization. It is easy to use as everything is at hand with shortcuts allowing to improve development time. It is so lightweight that … Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Fong Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Iterable (Internet, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code As I explained above, definitely switch to VSCode unless you are heavily invested/comfortable with the alternatives, in which case it may not be worth it for now. Vim users may differ, but did I mention VSCode also has a highly integrated and mature Vim plugin? I used to be a Vi… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code We evaluated both Sublime and Atom, and while they are both great tools, they did fall short of the one-stop shop that is Visual Studio Code. The integrations with Docker, Live Share, Azure app services all add to making this a single tool for all our needs. Without having to … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Sacramento Developer in Information Technology at McGill University (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code In my opinion, VS Code is the best option for coding. It works on Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS. Moreover, there's a great team/community behind the scene to maintain this program. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It is more advanced, it has more features and is a lot better than its competitors in terms of everything. It stands the best among all the similar software of this type. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Full Circle TMS (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code has become my preferred text editor. It has a lot of useful features common to IDEs, and it is still quick enough to jot down quick notes or just throw open a blank file for some text manipulation with regex. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code It has everything other editors are offering but you will find so many additions. Sometimes you don't think you need a feature until you start using it and that's the case with VS Code. So many things will pop up and make your life easier. Just because you're used to other … Incentivized Helpful?	Sublime HQ Verified User Chose Sublime Text While Microsoft Visual Studio Code has a lot more to offer, it can sometimes be a little too much and get too complicated. I like to keep things simple in text editors which makes Sublime Text my preferred editor. There are a lot of packages that can be installed for Sublime … Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Verma Software Engineer Intern in Research & Development at UBC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Sublime Text Sublimes text is comparable with the Microsoft Visual Studio Code and NotePad++. However, VS code is far better than [Sublime Text] in terms of the plugins and extensions available in the market. [...] Sublime consumes [...] less memory, compared to the VS code, [which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text is free and offers a cleaner coding interface. Even if I forgot to save updates to a file, the next time I open it, it's still present. Sublime Text boots faster than the other text editors and is also easy to deploy. Memory consumption of Sublime Text is lesser … Incentivized Helpful? Al Mubassir Muin Software Engineer in Information Technology at Prime Tech Solutions Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Sublime Text Compared to any other text editor I've used, Sublime Text has the best user interface. On Macs, Windows, and Linux, Sublime Text makes editing easier. When I couldn't use Notepad++ on a Windows machine, I used Sublime Text instead. My colleagues started using Sublime Text, so I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text has a bit more flexibility and doesn't take up as much space or memory as some of the larger IDEs. Notepad++ is customizable too, but Sublime Text is better suited for code editing in my experience. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Visual Studio Code was honestly a tough competitor to Sublime for multi-language projects, and ultimately edged it out for some of the teams I worked with. It's library functionality was far superior, it is 100% open source vs ads, and it has a similar speed. PyCharm and WebStor… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Before using Visual Studio Code, we were using Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver worked well back then, but we were amazed at how much faster and more intuitive Sublime Text was. That's the time that we got into SASS, which made things go so much faster and more efficiently. Also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text I think Sublime is the most efficient text editor in terms of memory usage, especially compared to VSC. However, VSC is feature-rich and has almost all the features of IDE such as debugging tools and IntelliSense. These features are missing in sublime. There are plugins to … Incentivized Helpful? Sudha Govindaraju C# Programmer in Information Technology at IRISS, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text has a better UI compared to any other text editors I have used. Easier to edit text on Sublime Text, even on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text For users who care a lot about performance (and also battery usage), ST3 is going to win almost every time because its natively built on whatever OS you are running on whereas VSCode is built on top of Electron, which is widely known to have poor performance. As an anecdote, on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Visual Studio Code is nice from a development standpoint in that it offers many of the features of Sublime Text with the addition of an integrated terminal. Brackets likewise offers some of the benefits of Sublime Text with some added HTML specific tools. Both of these … Incentivized Helpful? Jacob Rasmussen Data Engineer in Engineering at Qualtrics (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Sublime Text It's been the smoothest and cleanest product Incentivized Helpful? Suleman Ahmad Senior Software Developer - NodeJS/Express, Angular, MVC Framework in Engineering at CareAxiom (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Sublime Text The easy to use, user-friendly interface is the feature that I like the most. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text It has tons of plugins, themes, and fonts which help developers write efficient well-tested code. It works with all languages which gives developers [the ability] to choose any language they want to develop applications in. It is easy to use and doesn't consume lot of memory … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Lada Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Liberty Concepts (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Sublime Text Sublime Text does not provide as comprehensive of a development environment as PhpStorm or Visual Studio IDE. On the other hand, it does not take up nearly as much in system resources, so it is very convenient to use when opening many files or directories for lighter editing. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sublime Text Most programming text editors have everything a programmer needs. There are differences with options/plugins/setup/prices, but I choose Sublime because it is well supported and widely used. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Sublime Text
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (90 ratings)	9.1 (56 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (7 ratings)	8.9 (4 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (23 ratings)	9.3 (11 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)