Microsoft Visual Studio Code vs. Vim

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

908 Reviews and Ratings

Vim

29 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
Vim	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Vim is an open source configurable text editor.	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Vim

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Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Vim
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Vim
Considered Both Products	Microsoft 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 I have been using Vim as both editor and IDE for development projects for a long time until I met Visual Studio Code. VS Code can provide the editing power of Vim through a plugin, plus many other benefits, thus it can easily replace Vim in most development use. 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? 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 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? 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?	Open Source Verified User Chose Vim Notepad++, while being a great editor, is very easy to get familiar with. However, being a serious developer, having the most efficient tool is much more important than having an easy tool. Vim’s speed is very much faster than that of notepad++. Moreover, the amount of plugins … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim I prefer Vim simply because it's as simple as apps like Notepad, Notepad++, or gedit, but as feature rich as Microsoft Visual Studio. The startup time is quick, the response time is quick, it never freezes. Vim always "just works." Vim can be downloaded in a few seconds (if … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vim It is hard to compare Vim to many other packages in the developer's stack of tools. It mainly does one thing, edit text, and does it better than anything else. For instance, you can't really compare it to Visual Studio Code because VS actually has a Vim plug-in so you can … Incentivized Helpful? Greg Garnhart Research & Development: Product Intern in Product Management at Bandwidth Inc. (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Vim Vim is a text editor that strives for simplicity. It does that well, but when you need something at the next level, take a look at the above two. Visual Studio Code is a fantastic, free code editor that makes most of my workflow easy. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Vim
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (90 ratings)	10.0 (9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (7 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (23 ratings)	6.0 (5 ratings)