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PhpStorm vs. Microsoft Visual Studio

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PhpStorm

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AJetBrains supports PhpStorm, an integrated development environment (IDE).

    $9.90

    per month per user

    Visual Studio

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    PhpStormVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    For Individuals
    $99
    per year per user
    For Organizations
    $249
    per year per user
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PhpStormVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PhpStormVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    JetBrains
    Chose PhpStorm
    Both Visual Studio Code an Sublime Text are excellent code editors, and even offer a better performance than PHPStorm. However they are not complete IDE's and do not perform half of the tasks that PHPStorm does.
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    PhpStorm has a free trial. Visual Studio IDE does not. I believe that VSIDE is better suited for C+/.NET development and not PHP. Despite their PHP plugins & debugger, stepping through the code on PhpStorm always feels better and more intuitive than stepping through PHP with …
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    A few of my team members started on vs code but after switching to PhpStorm they never looked back. Many of vs code features require adding in add on after addon to get at or near the included feature set of PHP storm that includes it out of the box. Plus PhpStorm allows so …
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    While these two are also code editors, they are far from as robust as the PhpStorm IDE. Although these editors also support plugins to perform functions similar to PhpStorm, by bringing it natively it is much more efficient and you get rid of compatibility worries, etc. and it …
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    PhpStorm is without compare for a shop that works entirely in PHP. We've evaluated some of the other text editors on the market and while they have their perks, specifically speed, they aren't nearly as easy to navigate within the codebase or make sweeping changes.
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    Easier to use, more features, more reliable. Much more purpose built with specific integrations aimed directly at php code instead of the broad generic interfaces the other software have that are aiming to support many different languages.
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    PhpStorm is the most complete IDE for PHP that I have used. It is stable and solid, and it works on all platforms. There are some editors that are quicker loading, Sublime Text, Notepad ++, but they don't have the depth and solid foundation that PhpStorm has. This is why we …
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    PhpStorm compares comparably to Visual Studio for a PHP development environment. It is the most powerful editing environment I have come across for PHP. Having a background in C#, it feels much closer to and similar in power to VS. Has many of the same built in functions …
    Incentivized
    Chose PhpStorm
    It has support for almost any third party tools that you'll use for PHP development. You have a great support for employees and it's always being updated so it supports the latest technology.

    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Visual Studio
    At the moment the Visual Studio IDE was chosen for integration through native plugins for Salesforce and Flutter in a single environment.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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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
    PhpStormVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)