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Kite vs Visual Studio Code

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Kite
91
295
+ 1
15
Visual Studio Code
157.5K
140.9K
+ 1
2.3K
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Kite vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kite as "Your programming copilot. Augment your coding environment with all the internet’s programming knowledge". Your editor and web browser don't know anything about each other, which is why you end up continuously switching between them. Kite bridges that gap, bringing an internet-connected programming experience right alongside your editor. On the other hand, Visual Studio Code is detailed as "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.

Kite and Visual Studio Code are primarily classified as "Tools for Text Editors" and "Text Editor" tools respectively.

Visual Studio Code is an open source tool with 79.4K GitHub stars and 11.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Visual Studio Code's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Kite and Visual Studio Code
Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 1.2M views
Chose
Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
over
GoLandGoLandSublime TextSublime Text
at

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.

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Simon Ibssa
Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · | 2 upvotes · 1.1M views
Chose
Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
over
Sublime TextSublime Text
in

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!

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Pros of Kite
Pros of Visual Studio Code
  • 6
    Smart auto-completion
  • 2
    Intelligent code analysis
  • 2
    Smart contextual help
  • 2
    PyCharm support
  • 1
    Flexible security config for sending and analysing code
  • 1
    Enterprise model for on premise servers
  • 1
    Atom support
  • 336
    Powerful multilanguage IDE
  • 304
    Fast
  • 193
    Front-end develop out of the box
  • 158
    Support TypeScript IntelliSense
  • 142
    Very basic but free
  • 125
    Git integration
  • 106
    Intellisense
  • 77
    Faster than Atom
  • 53
    Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
  • 44
    Great Refactoring Tools
  • 43
    Good Plugins
  • 41
    Terminal
  • 37
    Superb markdown support
  • 36
    Open Source
  • 34
    Extensions
  • 26
    Large & up-to-date extension community
  • 26
    Awesome UI
  • 23
    Powerful and fast
  • 21
    Portable
  • 18
    Best code editor
  • 17
    Best editor
  • 16
    Easy to get started with
  • 15
    Crossplatform
  • 15
    Built on Electron
  • 15
    Good for begginers
  • 15
    Lots of extensions
  • 14
    Extensions for everything
  • 14
    All Languages Support
  • 14
    Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
  • 13
    Easy to use and learn
  • 12
    "fast, stable & easy to use"
  • 12
    Extensible
  • 11
    Git out of the box
  • 11
    Useful for begginer
  • 11
    Ui design is great
  • 11
    Faster edit for slow computer
  • 11
    Totally customizable
  • 10
    Great community
  • 9
    Fast Startup
  • 9
    Powerful Debugger
  • 9
    Great language support
  • 9
    It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
  • 9
    SSH support
  • 9
    Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
  • 8
    Can compile and run .py files
  • 8
    Python extension is fast
  • 7
    Great document formater
  • 7
    Features rich
  • 6
    Awesome multi cursor support
  • 6
    She is not Rachel
  • 6
    He is not Michael
  • 5
    VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
  • 5
    Extension Echosystem
  • 5
    Very proffesional
  • 5
    Language server client
  • 5
    Easy azure
  • 5
    SFTP Workspace
  • 4
    Has better support and more extentions for debugging
  • 4
    Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
  • 4
    Virtualenv integration
  • 3
    More tools to integrate with vs
  • 3
    Better autocompletes than Atom
  • 3
    Emmet preinstalled
  • 3
    Has more than enough languages for any developer
  • 3
    Supports lots of operating systems
  • 3
    'batteries included'
  • 2
    Fast and ruby is built right in
  • 2
    Customizable
  • 2
    VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
  • 2
    CMake support with autocomplete
  • 2
    Light
  • 2
    Microsoft
  • 1
    Big extension marketplace
  • 1
    Good

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Cons of Kite
Cons of Visual Studio Code
  • 4
    Needs to send your code to their home-base service
  • 45
    Slow startup
  • 28
    Resource hog at times
  • 20
    Poor refactoring
  • 15
    Microsoft
  • 13
    Poor UI Designer
  • 11
    Weak Ui design tools
  • 10
    Poor autocomplete
  • 8
    Microsoft sends telemetry data
  • 7
    Poor in PHP
  • 7
    Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
  • 7
    Super Slow
  • 5
    It's MicroSoft
  • 3
    No built in live Preview
  • 3
    No Built in Browser Preview
  • 3
    Poor in Python
  • 3
    Electron
  • 3
    No color Intergrator
  • 3
    Very basic for java development and buggy at times
  • 2
    Powered by Electron
  • 2
    Bad Plugin Architecture
  • 1
    Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
  • 1
    Slow C++ Language Server

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What is Kite?

Your editor and web browser don't know anything about each other, which is why you end up continuously switching between them. Kite bridges that gap, bringing an internet-connected programming experience right alongside your editor.

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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What are some alternatives to Kite and Visual Studio Code?
Codota
Codota is a free IDE plugin that helps you code faster and smarter using code completions learned from millions of programs. Codota supports almost all IDEs and languages
ReSharper
It is a popular developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. It automates most of what can be automated in your coding routines. It finds compiler errors, runtime errors, redundancies, and code smells right as you type, suggesting intelligent corrections for them.
Spacemacs
Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features. Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor.
Atom-IDE
A collection of Atom UIs to support language services as part of Atom IDE, designed for use with packages built on top of atom-languageclient.
GitHub Copilot
It is an AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster and with less work. It draws context from comments and code, and suggests individual lines and whole functions instantly.
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