Is VS Code the same as Visual Studio? Super confused.
Visual Studio Code, appears to be a code editor with support for C, C#, C++, Fortran, Go, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, and Julia
Visual Studio, appears to be a code editor with support for 36 languages including C, C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS.
Visual Studio Code, appears to be liked by almost every user and the favorite in a bunch of online polls.
Visual Studio, appears to be unusable junk, widely hated in almost every survey, and unable to even display its own error messages correctly in 2022.
Definitely different things, I've used them both. Visual Studio is from before they went on their Microsoft <3 Open Source campaign. It has pricey licenses and is pretty much an ad for .net
It's a traditional windows application. .net/WPF I think. Configured via XML
VSCode is free, an electron app, has a plugin store with lots of niche language plugins. Configured via json.
Surely they're using VSCode to exert influence in their Microsofty way, but it feels much less like a prison.
VSCode still feels like a bit much to me (though of a monster than Visual Studio). I'm pretty happy with helix.
Cool. Thanks. Started in with the newest version of VS 2022 recently for C++, and then find out there's apparently something better in a different internal fiefdom that people actually like.
