In December 2018, engineering recruiter Triplebyte reported that Visual Studio Code was now the editor of choice for engineers during its programming interviews, far surpassing Visual Studio. The May 2019 release, for instance, adds smart selection for JavaScript and TypeScript, using semantic knowledge to expand selections for expressions, types, classes, statements, and imports. And monthly updates of Visual Studio Code offer developers new capabilities every few weeks. Others said Visual Studio Code is no mere “editor,” considering it has debugging, task running, version control, and IntelliSense code completion, like Visual Studio. Note too that a Visual Studio installation might be tens of gigabytes in size, while Visual Studio Code takes a few hundred megabytes. Some pointed out that “not fast” is an understatement, and that Visual Studio is “quite heavy” in terms of CPU and memory requirements. Responses to a query in Stack Overflow, made four years ago, sum up the differences this way: Visual Studio Code is “cross-platform,” “file oriented,” “extensible,” and “fast,” whereas Visual Studio is “full-featured,” “project and solution oriented,” “convenient,” and “not fast.” The cross-platform editor complements a developer’s existing tool chain, and is leveraged for web and cloud applications.īut while Microsoft views the two tools as complementary, developers have been raising questions about redundancy for years. Microsoft describes Visual Studio Code, on the other hand, as a streamlined code editor, with just the tools needed for a quick code-build-debug cycle.
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