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Pros of Astro
Pros of Visual Studio Code
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    • 340
      Powerful multilanguage IDE
    • 308
      Fast
    • 193
      Front-end develop out of the box
    • 158
      Support TypeScript IntelliSense
    • 142
      Very basic but free
    • 126
      Git integration
    • 106
      Intellisense
    • 78
      Faster than Atom
    • 53
      Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
    • 45
      Great Refactoring Tools
    • 44
      Good Plugins
    • 42
      Terminal
    • 38
      Superb markdown support
    • 36
      Open Source
    • 35
      Extensions
    • 26
      Awesome UI
    • 26
      Large & up-to-date extension community
    • 24
      Powerful and fast
    • 22
      Portable
    • 18
      Best code editor
    • 18
      Best editor
    • 17
      Easy to get started with
    • 15
      Lots of extensions
    • 15
      Good for begginers
    • 15
      Crossplatform
    • 15
      Built on Electron
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      Extensions for everything
    • 14
      Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
    • 14
      All Languages Support
    • 13
      Easy to use and learn
    • 12
      "fast, stable & easy to use"
    • 12
      Extensible
    • 11
      Ui design is great
    • 11
      Totally customizable
    • 11
      Git out of the box
    • 11
      Useful for begginer
    • 11
      Faster edit for slow computer
    • 10
      SSH support
    • 10
      Great community
    • 10
      Fast Startup
    • 9
      Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
    • 9
      Great language support
    • 9
      Powerful Debugger
    • 9
      It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
    • 8
      Can compile and run .py files
    • 8
      Python extension is fast
    • 7
      Features rich
    • 7
      Great document formater
    • 6
      He is not Michael
    • 6
      Extension Echosystem
    • 6
      She is not Rachel
    • 6
      Awesome multi cursor support
    • 5
      VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
    • 5
      Language server client
    • 5
      SFTP Workspace
    • 5
      Very proffesional
    • 5
      Easy azure
    • 4
      Has better support and more extentions for debugging
    • 4
      Supports lots of operating systems
    • 4
      Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
    • 4
      Virtualenv integration
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      Better autocompletes than Atom
    • 3
      Has more than enough languages for any developer
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      'batteries included'
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      More tools to integrate with vs
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      Emmet preinstalled
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      VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
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      CMake support with autocomplete
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      Microsoft
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      Customizable
    • 2
      Light
    • 2
      Big extension marketplace
    • 2
      Fast and ruby is built right in
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      File:///C:/Users/ydemi/Downloads/yuksel_demirkaya_webpa

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    Cons of Astro
    Cons of Visual Studio Code
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      • 46
        Slow startup
      • 29
        Resource hog at times
      • 20
        Poor refactoring
      • 13
        Poor UI Designer
      • 11
        Weak Ui design tools
      • 10
        Poor autocomplete
      • 8
        Super Slow
      • 8
        Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
      • 8
        Microsoft sends telemetry data
      • 7
        Poor in PHP
      • 6
        It's MicroSoft
      • 3
        Poor in Python
      • 3
        No Built in Browser Preview
      • 3
        No color Intergrator
      • 3
        Very basic for java development and buggy at times
      • 3
        No built in live Preview
      • 3
        Electron
      • 2
        Bad Plugin Architecture
      • 2
        Powered by Electron
      • 1
        Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
      • 1
        Slow C++ Language Server

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      What is Astro?

      It is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. It combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.

      What is Visual Studio Code?

      Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

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