Microsoft Visual Studio Code Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

908 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Visual Studio Code are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers have praised Visual Studio Code for its intuitive user interface, straightforward operation, and ease of navigation across different programming languages. Users find it simple to use and switch between tasks efficiently.

Extensive Plugin Support: Users have appreciated the vast array of extensions available for Visual Studio Code, offering diverse functionalities and catering to a wide range of development requirements effectively. The availability of numerous plugins enhances the overall coding experience.

Stability and Reliability: Customers have highlighted the software's consistent stability, reliability, and seamless performance even when managing extensive workspaces or handling intricate coding tasks. The solid performance ensures a smooth workflow without interruptions.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code Reviews

91 Reviews

Great freeware

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is our default IDE solution for the software development team. It solves a number of issues including find a cheap/no cost solution for developers to quickly edit code from our Azure DevOps platform.

Pros

coding ide

Cons

mainly accepting GCC login credentials

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for developers to get started and to work on full scope projects without a need for Visual studio (mainly in environments where either limited resources and/or cash flow).

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Microsoft Visual Studio Code best IDE for coding

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Visual Studio Code mainly to develop in Java and Apache Camel. Very recently we have added Github Copilot extension and we are very satisfied in the way it is embedded and the many situations where it help us by asking questions and getting very precise answers (issue troubleshooting) and by getting proposals in terms of lines of code.

Pros

Text formatting
Wide number of extensions
Quick to launch
Efficient consuming PC resources

Cons

Frankly speaking, trying to come up with some improvements I struggle to find something for my daily use. Perhaps, documentation is not pretty clear when configuring file settings.json, you need to dig a bit on the internet to find the solution

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is perfectly well suited if you want to code in Java. It is well supported and provides lots of Java extensions (extension pack for java, debugger for java, maven for java...). Apart from coding, it helps you debugging and you can run your program in a embedded server.

Carlos Rizzo

Software Engineer in Engineering at SICPA (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Microsoft Visual Studio Code for Beginners

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 17, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is being used as an integrated development environment by the developers in our organization. It is mainly used for writing Java Script, Node JS, React UI and SQL scripts. We are also using Micrsoft Visual Code for debugging operations and version control for maintaining complex codes and workflows. Internal web applications are being built using Microsoft Visual Code in our organization.

Pros

Write and Debug Code more efficiently
Version control with the help of SVN integration
It is a lightweight application which improves overall performance
Very customizable

Cons

Basic functionality must be in built and not dependent on installation of extensions
Performance can get slower when working with large files in Microsoft Visual Studio Code which needs to be improved
Needs improved support for Mobile App development like its competitors

Likelihood to Recommend

As a developer I find Microsoft Visual Studio Code very user friendly for my day-to-day activities. It is easy to write code and perform debugging operations. We have integrated SVN (Bit Bucket) with Microsoft Visual Studio Code for version control. It is easy to share code with other members of the team using this approach and code can be packaged into applications and exported with ease using Microsoft Visual Studio Code.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Visual Studio Code - happy coding

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 12, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is a mighty and lightweight IDE which never seen. It supports almost all the languages. It has extensive verities of extensions for building applications. It also provides flexibility to run applications in different ports. I widely use this editor to develop react, react native, angular JavaScript, etc. as per my development experience you will never regret using this vs code ide.

Pros

Ease to use
Light weight take less time to start ide
Wide verities of extensions.
Ease to connect with repositories

Cons

Dubugger is complex based on applications
Some time exteions works very weard

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Awesome IDE for Developers

Rating: 8 out of 10

December 15, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Visual Code Studio is used in my organization for development operations like coding, debugging, sharing code, using git clone thorough it. It is completely used by all of us for writing code and do practice on it. It is a code editor which helps in getting error easily in fact it shows it shows error during writing code and also recommend best way to write code. It is used also for deployment also. All files can be opened and used. We can use terminal also to run.

Pros

Shows error while writing code.
Provide Terminal to run the code
Various package available
Different languages supports like python, java, c, c++.

Cons

supports different technology
split view
git integration
provide instruction on each piece of code

Likelihood to Recommend

VS Code editor makes it easier to write code. Whenever we type any code, it shows error if code contains error, this is the best part.
It also provides live server to show output. we can have different package that is to be imported and installed. this allows to use different features to use.
No of extension of different can also be used.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

One of the best code editors

Rating: 8 out of 10

November 4, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Visual Studio Code has been really helpful to me, allowing me to utilize my time more effectively and accomplish the task, more thanks to its simple interfaces and strong integrations.
I use this tool for analyzing the code and fixing the bug, more useful when it comes to resolve the compiler errors before going for the build.
Highlights syntax errors while coding, which pretty much saves the time for compiling the code again and again.

Pros

Great UI
Extension feasibility
Error findings

Cons

Consumes more battery power
Sometimes it hangs

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Visual Code is well suited for developing the code with error free and with proper indentation.
We can easily analyse the code.
Helps to connect with version control tool.
With the help of extensions we can easily find the difference between the commits and analyze our changes for any bug fix or some analysis.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

VS Code - You will love it

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 30, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1. Writing day-to-day code 2. running and debugging my Flutter apps 3. Write Test code for my projects 4. Access remote host via pem file 5. Manage Docker containers 6. Version Control like commit ,push ,merge etc. 7.Increase my productivity with extension like rest client , themes code coverage tools

Pros

Source Control
Test and debug code
Code formatting
Display Errors

Cons

Theme
Shortcuts
Navigation
Guide

Likelihood to Recommend

1. VS Code is best for writing code , it has auto save feature 2. Source control is top notch easy to view commits , push , create branch change branch merge branch 3. Writing test code and testing it. 4. Want cool extensions to increase the productivity 5. Manage and access Docker containers 6. Search something in code and replace it

Verified User

Project Manager in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

An exceptional tool for developers

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Being an IT company, our organization needs to develop various lines of code every day to develop our clients' products. Writing codes in traditional text editors like notepad, notepad++ is a bit tricky. There is no even delimiter matching in the notepad. This had created a huge problem in our organization. To solve these problems, our organization began to use Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Using this tool, we can easily search for required files and required lines of code. Errors are automatically detected by using suitable packages for the programming language that we are working on. Also, we can take benefit of the inbuilt terminal in the software.

Pros

Checks error while writing codes
Provides great Extensions so that it can support almost any language
Git and Github implementaion can be done easily

Cons

Newly added Gihub Copilot crashes a lot.
It would be better if php and python deployment was made easier.
Searching for settings is a bit complicated.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is well suited for emerging developers who want to increase their productivity while coding new lines of code. Developers can get a package of all the tools needed for them in this single software which is really fascinating. For people other than the programming field, this tool is less appropriate.

Bimal Subedi

Software Engineer in Information Technology at VSARV (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Best IDE/TextEditor I've seen

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VSCode makes it easier to write code. Whenever you make a syntax error or a typo it warns you immediately, which is really awesome! Also, it enables us to integrate debugger, lint, build, and publishing tools. It even comes with a huge set of plugins, which makes it superior! It supports almost every language, but if a language is not supported or if it's missing you can add it.

Pros

It helps us write code without errors.
It also helps us with building and testing code on the fly and deploying code locally.
It's better than any other paid or free IDE/Text Editor.

Cons

I didn't find any problem with using VSCode.
Yes, there were some bug in the previous release, but now those are fixed.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's open-source and has a very big community. Plugins are available for almost every language/framework to lint, build, and test code. UI/UX looks premium. Last but not least, it's free! It is well suited to us and there is not any scenario where it is not appropriate. I would recommend everyone to use it.

ANurag Tamrakar

Software Engineer - DevOps in Engineering at Precisely | Trust in Data (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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The only script editor you'll ever need

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When it comes to a script editing, you can't go past Visual Studio, I've tried others but Visual Studio has the best features and it just easy to use. Having tabs and a built-in file browser make my life easier.

Pros

Easy of use
Looks great
Tabs, tabs, tabs

Likelihood to Recommend

It just works and is super easy to find what you need to get your job done quickly.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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