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I'm a bit confused by people's praise of VS Code. Are people really writing software with anything less featured than that? As someone who uses Visual Studio f

• ld00d 11y ago
  VS Code runs on non-Windows systems for starters.
• insulanian 11y ago
  > As someone who uses Visual Studio for everything... This is a classical hammer/nail example. Big red sign to me. I'm a long time Visual Studio user, and that what you are saying is exactly the problem I see in MS-based developer circles. Visual Studio is not appropriate for everything. As a matter of fact I don't use it at all for SPA development anymore, but just for server side stuff. However, to give you few arguments: 1. VS Code and Sublime work on Linux/OSX/Windows and I do work on all three of those. Having the same tool is a great gain here. 2. Editing capabilities of VSCode and Sublime are definitely superior to Visual Studio, to the point that I find myself copying pieces of code from Visual Studio to Sublime, editing it and pasting back to Visual Studio. 3. Speed is not comparable. Visual Studio has become a bloated beast. Sometimes it takes a minute to start it, and then you enjoy busy freeze times whenever you push it just a bit harder than it likes. All in all, I find my self being much more productive when not using Visual Studio for anything except pure .NET development.