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Advantage of using VS Code over IntelliJ

anto on December 16, 2022

Hello guuys šŸ‘‹ Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular code editor developed by Microsoft. It has gained widespread adoption among developers due ...
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Rudy NappƩe

VS Code is available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, making it a good choice for developers working on multiple platforms. IntelliJ, on the other hand, is only available on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Not sure I understand...

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anto

I forgot to add web platform.
Edited. Thanks

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Rudy NappƩe

Or maybe ChatGPT wrote the article...

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anto

Not at all ... It's just a mistake in my sentence because I forgot the web platform for vscode.
cf: vscode.dev

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Rudy NappƩe

Sorry then šŸ˜…

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Fyodor

Only the price is the real advantage here. But not for professional development job obviously.

Donā€™t get me wrong, I like VS Code, but for larger code bases itā€™s too poor in terms of performance, and itā€™s light only without plugins, but for real work youā€™ll need a whole bunch of them. Also all popular dev tools around are cross-platform in fact, and the technology VS Code uses to implement that is not the best and the most performant one.

So all in all the only real advantage of VS Code for me as a JS developer (paying fourty bucks for webstorm yearly) is the possibility to create and customize plugins in a much easier way (Intelij ecosystem is Java/Kotlin based). You can have some real fun with that.

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anto

I would be totally on your side if there is no VS Code Web.
For remote working, you can have the exactly same environment synced between your computers. Even between different OS. This is a game breaker for me.
But I never try VS Code on huge codebases, and I suppose that in case of web based VS Code the performance is even worse.

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Pankaj

I am very confident that you have never used IntelliJ IDEs in your life.

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anto • Edited

That is almost correct, I have primarily used Visual Studio Code for my coding projects(even Android native project). However, I have also dabbled with IntelliJ IDEs in the past. While I do appreciate the features and capabilities(autocompletion) of IntelliJ, I have found it to be quite resource-intensive and not as portable as VS Code.

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Pankaj

Hey, don't want to sound rude but you can't write a comparison if you haven't used two extensively.

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anto

Agree, but I have lot more experience with Android Studio.