I've always been a fan of lightweight text editors and always choose speed over piles of functionality. To me Visual Studio feels like trying to run while wearing cement shoes. It takes forever to load and crashes/freezes far too often for my taste.
VSCode is amazingly light weight and stable and brings in IntelliSense, basic refactoring tools, and pretty solid git integration.
If you're used to using a full-featured IDE like Visual Studio (etc) you'll probably find VSCode lacking (but blazingly fast). If you're used to using sublime, atom, etc... You'll find VSCode to be feature rich and comparably fast.
(I work at Microsoft, but not on VSCode or Visual Studio. These opinions are my own and don't represent Microsoft)
Loading Visual Studio is (decently) fast. Loading a solution with 1000s of files takes FOREVER compared to VSCode which loads basically instantly because it's folder based.
I've always been a fan of lightweight text editors and always choose speed over piles of functionality. To me Visual Studio feels like trying to run while wearing cement shoes. It takes forever to load and crashes/freezes far too often for my taste.
VSCode is amazingly light weight and stable and brings in IntelliSense, basic refactoring tools, and pretty solid git integration.
If you're used to using a full-featured IDE like Visual Studio (etc) you'll probably find VSCode lacking (but blazingly fast). If you're used to using sublime, atom, etc... You'll find VSCode to be feature rich and comparably fast.
(I work at Microsoft, but not on VSCode or Visual Studio. These opinions are my own and don't represent Microsoft)