# Page 4 | Visual Studio Code Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 4 - Is Visual Studio Code the right Source Code Management solution for you? Explore 1693 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/186634/Visual-Studio-Code/reviews --- Visual Studio Code 4.8 (1693) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/186634/Visual-Studio-Code/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 4 - Reviews of Visual Studio Code ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 76-100 of 1693 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use AP Aakash P. Accessibility Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Quick and easy" August 24, 2024 5.0 Pros The best code editor and the fact that it's free makes it perfect. Looks good, runs well, and it has a good selection of extensions that allows you to run it the exact way you want to. Cons It can be a little bit daunting and difficult to navigate through the menu and settings at first. Review Source WW Wayne W. Software Developer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best IDE in the world." August 6, 2024 5.0 My experience with Visual Studio Code has been wonderful, cutting my development time in half. Pros Easily link and use data resources, allowing seamless development. Cons Organization of tools and functionality. Review Source SE Seif E. Flutter instructor at MSB Program Development Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My experience using Visual Studio Code" July 3, 2024 4.0 Overall, I find Visual Studio Code to be a powerful and flexible tool that suits programmers of all levels. Its multiple features and extensive integrations make it the ideal choice for many programming projects, from simple to complex. I highly recommend it to any programmer looking for a reliable and customizable code editor. Pros Visual Studio Code is easy to use and customize, supports a wide range of programming languages, has built-in Git integration, benefits from a large community, and receives regular updates. Cons It can consume system resources when running multiple extensions, and the initial setup might take some time to adjust to personal needs. Review Source GH Gauri H. software devloper Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Visual studio code review" July 27, 2024 5.0 It is the popular choice of devloper.Its is easy to use so student of colleges also use this software . Pros vs code is a good software.It is free to use also it is open source software.Many student can use vs code in colleges for practise of coding.It support multiple language.Debugging capabilities is powerful.It is extensibility through extentions.One of the best in vs code is no need to use multiple tools . Cons It consume significant memory.When using multiple extention or work on large project it performance is slow. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Scientist Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best IDE for Software Developers" June 26, 2024 4.0 Whether it is working on Jar climate on the highest point of Python as a component of web application or making basic HTML pages, Visual Studio is my decision of IDE. Indeed, even Edx from where I continue to select for new instructional exercises and courses utilizes Visual Studio. So it is extremely helpful. Obviously Visual Studio by Microsoft is maybe the most exceptional IDE that is refreshed as often as possible. Visual Studio is ideal IDE to use new computer based intelligence capacities with modules like Tabnine. So , the overall experience has been quite good . Pros It has an enormous client care accessible in its true site. It gives a large number of instruments for different programming dialects including C#, F#, PYTHON, C++ from there, the sky is the limit. To foster Cloud based applications, it can consistently incorporates with microsoft sky blue. It upholds extensive variety of undertaking advancement assignments from coding to troubleshooting and testing. I created many cross stage applications utilizing it. Its strong investigating apparatuses incorporates breakpoints, watch windows and step through troubleshooting empower recognizing and fixing issues without any problem. The range of extensions that this IDE supports is quite amazing! Cons One of the main cons is that VS Code takes up lot of resources , which leads to slowing the machine itself. Also, I did not find it suitable for android development . It needs a built in android studio support! Switched from [Eclipse IDE](https://www.capterra.com/p/205298/Eclipse-IDE/) One of the main reason for the switch was me dropping Java and moving to Python. The UI of Eclipse is very cluttered and complicated which can be annoying at times. Review Source Zoubir M. Etudiant Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Visual Studio Code pour tout votre développement " April 19, 2024 5.0 J'utilise tout les jours VSCode dans le développement Web avec les différents langage du web, Php, JS ou même des framework, dans la programmation en python et je n'ai jamais eu un problème. De plus l'extension github me permet de synchroniser mon code d'une simplicité jamais vu. Pros VSCode a beaucoup d'avantages, il est open source donc gratuit et disponible pour tous. Il est cross-platform ce qui facilite son utilisation. Comparé aux autres IDE, il est très léger. Sa bibliothèque d'extensions vous fais passer d'un développeur débutant à un professionnel en un clin d'œil. Cons Malgré ses avantages, VSCode a des limitations dans certains points. Par exemple, pour certains langage de programmation, il offre pas vraiment beaucoup de fonctionnalités comme les autres IDE spécialisé dans un langage. De plus, la personnalisation avancée de VSCode peut s'avérer un inconvénient dû au temps passer sur la configuration. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer FrontEnd developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vscode is the best code editor" August 15, 2023 4.0 After two years of consistent use, I can confidently say that my overall experience with VSCode has been highly positive. Pros The best thing I appreciate about VSCode is how effortlessly it can be utilized and personalized. Its user-friendly interface and intuitive design make navigation and coding a breeze, even for those new to the editor Cons While there's a lot to appreciate about VSCode, one aspect that can occasionally be frustrating is its extension system and the associated reload issue. Review Source GH Gregory H. Greggles Consumer Electronics Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "VS Code review" July 20, 2024 4.0 Pros I like many different extensions that you can get, depending on the language you want to code in. It is very flexible and I use it as my near only code editor/interpreter/compiler. Cons Some extensions such as git, docker, python require installing other software, which makes deployment harder. Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code It was the only one we looked at, so we implemented it. Review Source Dylan C. Lead Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The most powerful and customisable text editor you can get, and it's free" December 11, 2023 5.0 I recommend VS Code to everybody. It's free, it's stable, it's powerful, and it does the job well. Even when I use specialist Jetbrains IDEs, I keep VS Code around for odd-jobs. Pros Absolutely everything. It's customisable, its powerful, it's lightweight. You take it with you everywhere, even if you have a specialist IDE. Cons It's only as good as the plugins for the language you're working with. You do have to spend a lot of time finding and configuring the right extensions Alternatives considered [PhpStorm](https://www.capterra.com/p/186624/PhpStorm/)[RubyMine](https://www.capterra.com/p/246745/RubyMine/)[IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/)[WebStorm](https://www.capterra.com/p/231557/WebStorm/) Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code It's completely free, and with plugins it does a very good job of enabling productive workflows with the vast majority of popular languages on the market. Review Source Michael B. Customer Support Manager Media Production Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Unless your code NEEDS a specific IDE, Visual Studio Code is the way forward." November 9, 2023 5.0 Most of the team have been using VSC since they started learning to code, and those that predate it's release have all had really positive things to say about switching. Pros Switching between languages is a breeze, it recognises the language and swaps the markups automatically. Combined with the stellar third party plugin market. VSC is now the companies preferred IDE. Cons The only thing we haven't enjoyed in the web version. This was easily mitigated by installing it locally on our laptops. I'm sure the web client will be great in the coming years, but for now, we're happy to have it running locally. Review Source Tommy W. CTO, System designer Sokoni Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I was blown away" December 17, 2023 5.0 I started out with low expectations and after the Visual Studio 2023 on Mac was cancelled, I moved over all devlopment of our 55Gb code base to Visual Studio Code. Never going back. Pros I thought that Visual Studio Code was "just" an editor. Hey, I've been around from the early days vi, notepad, .. This is a different ball game. Visual Studio Code understands your code, the integration with lint, code snippets, plugins and AI makes it a dream come true. Now, I just need more nuget and Azure overview and I'm totally happy. Cons The simple installation, sync between all systems - well - it's a marvel. Cannot complain. Speed. Cannot complain. Quality. Cannot complain. NO CONS! Just download if you haven't yet! Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code I had to and wasn't too sorry. Just getting custom to short cuts and up to speed. Switched from [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/80230/microsoft-visual-studio/) It was cancelled.. On the PC I use both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio on W11. great match in heaven. Review Source Suyogya G. General Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My experience with Visual Studio Code" August 15, 2023 5.0 Overall, I have had an amazing experience with VS Code. I have been using it since the day I started coding. It's free and anyone can use it. Everyone in the industry uses it and I highly recommend all the developers to use VS Code. It would be amazing if they provided support for mobile based applications as well. Pros The fact that VS Code supports most of the programming languages is the best thing about it. From basic level to high level programing languages, VS Code has the support to edit, code and debug. It also has the ability to install third party extensions which make the work easier and faster. Coding in VS Code is very efficient. On top of that, VS Code is completely free which is another major plus point. It also supports GitHub co-pilot which makes our job easier than ever. Cons Although VS Code supports most of the languages, it does not offer much support for development in Mobile based applications. Hence why, developers use other IDEs for mobile development. Review Source Kamal Dyne N. Developper Full-Stack Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Help users for new project creation" November 14, 2023 4.0 I use VScode but for a new project I jump up on VScode to use another editor more perform in this type of actions Pros Visual Studio Code is the most impressive and fast code editor that I know. He is simple, fast to open, easy to use and can work with many extensions. Cons Visual Studio Code can help us by proposing to download automatically package for a new projet. For Instance when you want to create a project, VScode can ask you if it is react or python and then he can automatically download you the package for a new project Switched from [Komodo](https://www.capterra.com/p/213476/Komodo/)[PyCharm](https://www.capterra.com/p/186625/PyCharm/)[PhpStorm](https://www.capterra.com/p/186624/PhpStorm/)[IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/)[WebStorm](https://www.capterra.com/p/231557/WebStorm/) For new project it's more fast for me because of automatically downloading packages Review Source Joël T. Senior Frontend Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best software development integration" June 15, 2023 5.0 Visual studio code is the best editor for developing nice apps for the web, Windows, and mobile. Pros Visual studio code is my to-go software development studio. It's free and available for various devices.The code editor is highly responsive and interactive. Its built-in ability to quickly scan through local storage and update information change is pretty astonishing.I like it because it's so easy to use and there is much to be confused about. The interface is clean and less saturated. Working with VS code changes the game and I enjoy every single day that I work with it. Cons The editor will freeze when kept for 5 minutes in the background or will pop up an annoying notice each time I hover for at least 3s on any CSS property. Switched from [CodePen](https://www.capterra.com/p/229451/CodePen/) only web-based. Review Source KG Kristian G. Software Developer Program Development Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Visual Studio Code: The best editor for front end development;" April 11, 2023 5.0 My overall experience with visual studio code for front end development is 10/10. You can use any functionality you need by just adding it to the (or even write yourself any functionality you need as a plugin),and make a profile so that the editor remembers which plugins you have. This way if you change your working machine, you can still have the same development experience. Pros First of all, the fact that anyone can create new plugins and add new custom functionality is awesome. Secondly, because it is so lightweight there is no lag and hence no irritation. Other factors are it's Cross-platform, it has Powerful features Cons The only thing about the editor I do not like is that for C# or Java projects it does not perform as well as for example Visual Studio/Eclipse for example. Still, I do think it is most suitable for front-end development and it is the top choice in this field. Review Source RS Ramu S. Embedded engineer Aviation & Aerospace Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best lite tool for source code management " February 2, 2024 4.0 It’s fabulous application that works on both windows and linux Pros Easy to use interface Portability with any os Good themes Good inbuilt extensions Code highlighting Auto code snippet Good colours Inbuilt terminals Debugging tools Compilation kits Error highlighting Search capabilities Version control Line ,column selection numbers Split terminals Overall it’s a great lite weight highly useful application Cons It has less provision to setting debuggers to use for projects.it needed good debugging capability. Switched from [Eclipse IDE](https://www.capterra.com/p/205298/Eclipse-IDE/) Easy to use interface in vscode. Eclipse ide is bit heavy application Review Source EZ Emin Z. Sn. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "To write code faster with best keyboard shortcuts" January 23, 2024 5.0 We generally work with PHP language. It provides us with a very comfortable environment when editing and writing code. Additionally, keyboard shortcuts are very useful and we use them all the time. Pros Keyboard shortcuts are very useful! Selecting multiple lines with the Ctrl + Alt key, copying code snippets with the Shift + Alt key, automatic code indentation with the Alt + down key, selecting multiple regions with the Alt key are really successful! It makes your job easier with integrations and extensions. The file recovery feature also works well. Cons A close button can be added to quickly close the right and left sidebar menus. Right click and "hide sidebar" access is a bit difficult. Switched from [Adobe Dreamweaver](https://www.capterra.com/p/233245/Adobe-Dreamweaver/) Adobe Dreamweaver was very slow and lacking in keyboard shortcuts. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer SEO Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "É mais do que um simples editor de código; é uma ferramenta versátil e poderosa" August 10, 2023 5.0 A função de depuração integrada, a capacidade de executar testes diretamente no editor e a integração com serviços de nuvem e sistemas de controle de versão contribuem para uma experiência de desenvolvimento mais eficaz e eficiente. Pros Sua eficiência, customização, estabilidade e integração tornam-no uma escolha sólida para qualquer projeto de desenvolvimento de software. Como um desenvolvedor, considero o Visual Studio Code uma peça fundamental do meu conjunto de ferramentas, permitindo-me realizar meu trabalho com precisão e eficiência excepcionais. Cons A curva de aprendizado, para novos usuários ou aqueles que não estão familiarizados com ambientes de desenvolvimento integrados (IDEs), a curva de aprendizado inicial do VS Code pode ser um desafio. Configurações avançadas e extensões podem levar algum tempo para serem dominadas. Alternatives considered [Atomic Email Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/146414/Atomic-Email-Studio/)[Sublime Text](https://www.capterra.com/p/179535/Sublime-Text/) Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code Aumento da Eficiência e Produtividade diárias, aliado a uma comunidade entusiástica e ativa do Visual Studio Code, constituindo um fator distintivo. Switched from [Sublime Text](https://www.capterra.com/p/179535/Sublime-Text/) Por sua simplicidade e interface minimalista, entretando voltei a usar o visual code e aprender melhor sobre ele. Review Source JB Jona B. Student Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Revolutionizing Coding for CS Students: A Review of Visual Studio Code" January 23, 2023 5.0 I would rate my overall user experience of VS Code very highly - it is a powerful and versatile text editor that can be easily adapted to a wide range of coding projects. The flexibility and customization options provided by the software make it a valuable tool for coding projects, and the built-in debugging and integrated terminal features make it a great choice for development work. The various extensions available for different programming languages and tools are also very useful. While it can be resource-intensive and managing extensions can be a bit of a challenge, these downsides are outweighed by the benefits of using the software. I would highly recommend it to other students in the field! Pros As a CS student, I appreciate the flexibility and customization options provided by VS Code. The ability to customize the interface and add various extensions for different programming languages and tools makes it a valuable tool for coding projects. Additionally, the built-in debugging and integrated terminal features make it a great choice for development work! Cons A potential downside I found as a user, is that it can be resource-intensive, particularly when running multiple extensions at once. This may cause slower performance on lower-spec computers (which was my case during the first years of uni). Another potential issue is that it can be difficult to manage and organize the large number of extensions that are available, as well as keep them updated. I could also say that the initial learning curve is a bit steep, but it can definitely be overcome with time and patience. Switched from [Code::Blocks](https://www.capterra.com/p/210151/Code-Blocks/) Flexibility in workspace and programming resources. Review Source JAR Jo Ann R. owner/web designer Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "You Can't Beat it's Features or it's Price!" March 15, 2022 5.0 I love it, can't say it enough! I actually use it as the code editor with Bootstrap Studio. I assigned it as my default editor and now every time I work on a website in Bootstrap Studio, all code pages open in Visual Studio Code. Amazing how they can work together like that, but it's a great team of applications for sure! Pros At first it was that it was free so I could really check it out on my own schedule (sometimes 30 days ain't enough when I don't find time to use something. After using it a while I was amazed at all the features that saved so much time designing websites. Not having to visually match start and end tags was awesome as it shows you which goes with which. Tons of different themes to find the one that fits your style or visual needs. So many features and what isn't already there, someone has made an extension for so it's really well rounded. Cons Sometimes I have to work at getting an extension to function or function correctly. Keeping in mind of course that in most cases Microsoft didn't create them, there is still sometimes a learning curve with getting extensions working as you want them to. Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code One thing I've learned about shopping online. Everyone has an opinion and asking for them on forums is a great way to get feedback on software. Especially when it's a Web Designer's Forum. It was almost unanimous that Visual Studio Code was the best option ... and not just for the Free price! Switched from [TextMate](https://www.capterra.com/p/234698/TextMate/) Not enough features in TextMate, and it's very iffy on how it copies text from websites and such. Even when it's set to be a raw text editor, many times it still seems to grab the formatting and shouldn't. As a web designer, you very seldom can copy text directly from a website and add it to your website in any visual type of software without getting extra formatting brought in by the copying (Bootstrap Studio is part Visual and part Code). Using Visual Studio Code I can paste it right in there and not have to copy to a text editor and then to my builder. Saves a lot of added steps. Review Source RR Rodrigo R. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A strange tool" October 26, 2021 4.0 This is controversial, I know, but I honestly don't understand all the frenzy around VS code, as it's a simplified Visual Studio, heavier (proportionately to what it does) and less capable. We use it several times a week to do tasks that don't fit well in Visual Studio, without an expensive and complete plugin. For example for GO and PHP. In these situations, although we consider less efficient than JetBrains, but for the price the VS Code pays off for us. If we had to do something bigger, it would definitely not be our choice - due to productivity. But for trivial tasks it solves well. It is in the middle for us: big projects we do with VS, medium projects or with non-microsoft languages we use VS code, quick tasks and scripts or external files we use notepad++. Pros It is lighter and simpler than Visual Studio, so it can more easily solve tasks that are too small for VS. The fact that it's free is also great. The sheer amount of plugins is also very nice. Cons Many fragmented plugins (you need to download parts), many low quality plugins, many paid plugins with very expensive prices. The tool is a hybrid app so it doesn't have the same overall performance per screen as the official VS for windows. Project management is confusing and fragmented. Alternatives considered [Xojo](https://www.capterra.com/p/179342/Xojo/) Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code At the time just for the cost of Xojo and the fact that not all the things VS Code does Xojo does too (actually Xojo does a lot less, but what he does, he does very well). For some purposes it turned out to be our choice later, but due to the high cost of Xojo, we ended up keeping our main business flow over VS and VS Code anyway. Really, today, micro companies need to use everything they have at hand to reduce costs or put the cost only when it will bring return on a project. Switched from [Eclipse IDE](https://www.capterra.com/p/205298/Eclipse-IDE/) Eclipse is great, it's free, it has a lot of plugins, but it's too Java-based, and in a way that makes everyday use less productive for us, and it has frequent errors. When VS Code came out we opted for this lighter and less error-prone solution. Visual Studio is great in a lot of ways, but it's getting slower with each release. VS Code also has more integration options for non-microsoft stuff. So when we create desktop apps or UWP we use Visual Studio, when we need server languages like GO or PHP we switch to VS Code. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Full-featured, user friendly IDE" August 23, 2019 5.0 Visual Studio Code does it's job as an integrated development environment very well. I use it every single day and it makes the task of editing code as painless as it can be. It's highly configurable and there are thousands of extensions available for getting even more from it. Pros The first great thing you'll notice about Visual Studio Code (or vscode) is how easy it is to install and configure. Users of Windows, Mac OS and most Linux distributions will find easy-to-use installers on the website, while other distributions often have their own packaged versions available in distribution-specific package managers. After installing vscode, if you open a file type that has extensions available, vscode recommends an extension to install and manages the install process for you. I work with Go; vscode has very good support for working with .go files (with the help of a few extensions). Installing and using linters, formatters and debugging tools are all taken care of. Extensions are another big positive - there must be thousands available, covering things like support for different programming languages, spellchecking, changing the theme of the entire app, integrations with other development tools, and plenty more that I haven't thought of. Of course, the main job of an integrated development environment (IDE) like vscode is to make coding easier, and vscode does good job of this. As well as support for the standard text editing features that you'd expect from any tool, vscode provides extra features to help programmers, such as jumping to definitions of a function, automated refactoring, snippets, editing with multiple cursors, and more. Oh, and vscode is free, for private or commercial use. Cons I really don't have much negative to say about this software. It does its job fantastically, and I use it every day. I would say that support may not be on the same level as you would expect from an enterprise level support contract, since it's free software, but I have also never needed support. The team developing vscode are also constantly introducing new features and improving old ones. Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code I chose vscode over neovim based on ease of use, and over JetBrains' GoLand based on it being free. Review Source JB Joshua B. Developer Program Development Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VS code the standard for standard IDEs" June 11, 2024 4.0 VS code my first choice, and I only use other tools when I need to. Pros It is very flexible, and available for any OS. Creating workspaces and configuration files allows for quick setup and onboarding. I work on multiple projects, requiring multiple setups, VS code helps keep these setups organized. Cons The general nature of the IDE makes it very versatile, but requires a lot of tinkering to get it set up. Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code Features, compatibility with multiple OS, and stability were the main features. Review Source Prashant K. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Visual Studio Code, the best IDE for writing code and implementing applications" June 3, 2023 5.0 My overall experience with Visual Studio Code is the best b'coz I have tried many software IDE for writing codes and implementing applications and found VS Code the best.I used Visual Studio Code for developing applications and writing code for competitive programming and implementing APIs and many more things. Pros I am a software programmer and I highly use Visual Studio Code for writing code and implementing web applications. VS code is very easy to use and easy to write code for problem solving or Data Structure or Competitive programming. VS Code provides a lot of extensions for C/C++, PYTHON, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GO, JAVA, JSON and all the available programming and non-programming languages.It provides a lot of extensions for snippets of all programming languages which helps to write code faster than all other IDE available in market.I started using VS Code from first day and still using VS Code for developing and implementing applications. Cons Visual Studio Code gets heavy while installing too many extensions for each programming language and installing snippets for particular language.Due to heavy load Visual Studio Code gets slow and works slowly while starting software. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best free product by Microsoft" November 28, 2022 5.0 In old days, we were using Netbeans for PHP app development. One of the issues we faced was intensive memory & CPU usage. So we were looking for an alternative. We found several tools and finally decided to stick with VS Code. One of the best features of VS Code is plugin support. We can add more features by simply adding a new plugin to VS Code. For PHP development, we use multiple plugins with Tabnine. Which makes development much easier. We don't need to type lots of code in VS code with these plugins. Pros It is free and easy to use. It can be used as IDE or Notepad with intelligence Cons Memory & CPU usage. VS code uses lots of CPU & RAM. Because it is built using Electron which is simply a web framework. Alternatives considered [Sublime Text](https://www.capterra.com/p/179535/Sublime-Text/) Reason for choosing Visual Studio Code Plugin support & open source ideology Switched from [Apache NetBeans](https://www.capterra.com/p/178681/Apache-NetBeans/) VS Code uses less CPU & RAM compared to Netbeans. And it is simple to use Review Source Similar Products Featured