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Brackets vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?
Brackets: A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. Try Creative Cloud Extract (preview) for Brackets for an easy way to get clean, minimal CSS straight from a PSD with no generated code; Visual Studio Code: Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Brackets and Visual Studio Code can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.
"Beautiful UI" is the primary reason why developers consider Brackets over the competitors, whereas "Powerful multilanguage IDE" was stated as the key factor in picking Visual Studio Code.
Brackets and Visual Studio Code are both open source tools. Visual Studio Code with 78.4K GitHub stars and 10.9K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Brackets with 29.9K GitHub stars and 6.41K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1104 company stacks & 2298 developers stacks; compared to Brackets, which is listed in 36 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.
Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.
Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.
Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.
I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!
Pros of Brackets
- Beautiful UI51
- Lightweight40
- Extremely customizable25
- Free plugins20
- Live Preview13
- Free themes13
- Clean8
- Easy7
- Integration with photoshop6
- Perfect for web development4
- Simple4
- Fast4
- Awesome UI2
- Clean UI2
- Code suggestions2
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE331
- Fast295
- Front-end develop out of the box186
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense153
- Very basic but free138
- Git integration120
- Intellisense103
- Faster than Atom75
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration49
- Great Refactoring Tools42
- Good Plugins41
- Terminal40
- Superb markdown support36
- Open Source35
- Extensions31
- Awesome UI26
- Large & up-to-date extension community26
- Powerful and fast23
- Portable21
- Best code editor18
- Best editor17
- Easy to get started with16
- Crossplatform15
- Good for begginers15
- Built on Electron14
- Lots of extensions14
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates14
- All Languages Support13
- Extensions for everything13
- Extensible12
- "fast, stable & easy to use"11
- Git out of the box11
- Useful for begginer11
- Ui design is great11
- Easy to use and learn11
- Faster edit for slow computer11
- Totally customizable11
- Great community10
- Powerful Debugger9
- SSH support9
- Great language support9
- Fast Startup9
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it9
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need9
- Can compile and run .py files8
- Python extension is fast7
- Features rich7
- Great document formater7
- She is not Rachel6
- He is not Michael6
- Awesome multi cursor support6
- Very proffesional5
- Easy azure5
- Language server client5
- Extension Echosystem5
- SFTP Workspace5
- VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn5
- Has better support and more extentions for debugging4
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool4
- Virtualenv integration4
- 'batteries included'3
- Better autocompletes than Atom3
- Supports lots of operating systems3
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Emmet preinstalled3
- More tools to integrate with vs3
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- Light2
- Microsoft2
- Customizable2
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Big extension marketplace1
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Cons of Brackets
- Not good for backend developer3
- You have to edit json file to set your settings.1
- Bad node.js support1
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup44
- Resource hog at times27
- Poor refactoring20
- Poor UI Designer13
- Microsoft13
- Weak Ui design tools11
- Poor autocomplete10
- Poor in PHP7
- Huge cpu usage with few installed extension7
- Super Slow6
- Microsoft sends telemetry data5
- No Built in Browser Preview3
- No built in live Preview3
- Very basic for java development and buggy at times3
- No color Intergrator3
- Poor in Python3
- It's MicroSoft2
- Bad Plugin Architecture2
- Electron2
- Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes1
- Powered by Electron1
