Seemed to work but one of the pluggins kept showing error popups. To get cmake support I installed about 4 plugins. Such a waste of space and it really kept on distracting me. Side panels can't be hidden automatically when I am in the editor. Omg just tried to install vs code to test it out as a replacement for VS. VS proper has some 'Enterprise-y' tools for modeling, ops, teams, etc. VS proper has tools for UI visual editing for Windows desktop developers VS proper has a lot of out-of-the-box support these days for development on Android and other platforms that require tons of manual configuration in VS Code

VS proper has graphics (Direct3D) debugging and profiling tools VS proper has multi-monitor support in its UI VS proper has an integrated CPU and memory profiler VS proper has a rather more capable and easier-to-use debugger than the one provided by the Microsoft VSCode C++ plugin VS proper has some proprietary plugins like VAX and ReSharper that make that Intellisense and refactoring even better VS proper has vastly superior C++ refactoring support and plugins (VAX, Resharper, etc.) that make it even better by leaps and bounds VS proper has somewhat better and more reliable C++ navigation (Intellisense) for the time being, though the popular VSCode C++ plugins are slowly closing that gap The most immediate things that come to mind: I am looking for concrete examples of what it will bring to me, as a solo dev. Very often I see people saying 'vscode is a text-editor and visual studio is an IDE', which is true, but very vague. Now the situation has changed, I'm no longer working on my laptop and on linux. However that might be because 1) we use visual studio 2010 so many features might be missing 2) I don't know what it could bring to me so I keep the same workflow as with vscode. I use visual studio at work and I don't see any advantages to use it. But vscode filled these gap since it provide both. I used it in the past (before switching to text editors for the reasons mentionned above) and the only things I was missing was a visual debugger and context-aware completion. So perfect for me to run it on my weak laptop and have the same workflow on both windows and linux.Īlso visual studio always seemed overwhelming to me. The reason over an IDE was simple : is was lightweight, and cross platform. I've been using vs code almost since its out.

Visual studio code vs visual studio c++