![]() ![]() Why would you use Visual Studio over VS Code? It's no wonder that web developers have adopted VS Code as their primary code editor. VS Code has out-of-the-box support for Node.js development with JavaScript and TypeScript as well as built-in tooling for JSX/React, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Less, and JSON. The enterprise version bumps those numbers up to $250 per month and $5,999/$2,569 for the perpetual license. Visual Studio costs $45 per month or $1,199 for the first year, and $799 every year thereafter for the perpetual license. If you're an individual developer or work on a smaller startup team, the cost savings can be significant. There are many contributors working day and night to make VS Code as great as it can be. Unlike Visual Studio (full-version), VS Code is completely free and open-source. Free and open-source (Visual Studio full-version has hefty license fees) Visual Studio takes a bit more getting used-to. If you have any past development experience, you will understand the tool instantly. More Intuitiveįrom the moment you first launch VS Code, the experience is smooth. If you want to add features to VS Code, that is at your discretion, in the form of extensions. You don't have to worry about tons of complex built-in functionality that you will never use. VS Code's simplicity means that the development experience is way more streamlined. This means there's a massive marketplace of extensions for almost every use-case you can think of. Extensions are great because they are community-made and maintained. Although it is designed to be a "code editor" and not an IDE, you can almost exactly replicate the features of an IDE by installing VS Code extensions. You can make VS Code do pretty much anything you want. Highly flexible (there's thousands of extensions you can install) Now, with VS Code, I open and close projects all day long without worrying about speed. I would leave my project open all day to avoid the awful load time. I used to start up Visual Studio and go grab a cup of coffee while it launched. VS Code boots up incredibly fast compared to Visual Studio. ![]() The application files are lean, and auto-updates are relatively seamless. It's built with web technologies using the Electron framework. ![]()
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