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Monaco Editor vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

What is Monaco Editor? A browser based code editor. The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

What is 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.

Monaco Editor and Visual Studio Code belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.

"Out of the Box Intellisense" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Monaco Editor, while over 237 developers mention "Powerful multilanguage IDE" as the leading cause for choosing Visual Studio Code.

Monaco Editor and Visual Studio Code are both open source tools. Visual Studio Code with 79.3K GitHub stars and 11.1K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Monaco Editor with 15.9K GitHub stars and 1.39K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1133 company stacks & 2378 developers stacks; compared to Monaco Editor, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

Decisions about Monaco Editor and Visual Studio Code

Kamaleshwar BN

Head of Engineering at Dibiz Pte. Ltd. · a month ago | 11 upvotes · 59.8K views

Chose

over

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.

Simon Ibssa

Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · Jan 9, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 54.6K views

Chose

Visual Studio Code

over

Sublime Text

My Stack

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 Monaco Editor

Pros of Visual Studio Code

5
Out of the Box Intellisense
2
More features than Ace
1
Microsoft Product
1
Accessibility
1
Power vscode, with all it's features
1
Good support for none-monospace fonts

279
Powerful multilanguage IDE
246
Fast
160
Front-end develop out of the box
136
Support TypeScript IntelliSense
114
Very basic but free
88
Git integration
75
Intellisense
59
Faster than Atom
32
Great Refactoring Tools
30
Superb markdown support
29
Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
22
Good Plugins
18
Large & up-to-date extension community
16
Terminal
13
Portable
11
Built on Electron
11
Powerful and fast
11
Extensions
9
Awesome UI
9
Open Source
7
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
7
Crossplatform
6
Best code editor
6
All Languages Support
5
Easy to get started with
5
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
5
Totally customizable
4
Lots of extensions
4
She is not Rachel
4
SSH support
4
Great language support
4
Best editor
4
"fast, stable & easy to use"
3
Faster edit for slow computer
3
Great community
3
Language server client
3
Easy to use and learn
3
Extensions for everything
3
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
3
Extensible
3
Great document formater
3
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
2
Fast Startup
2
Has more than enough languages for any developer
2
Ui design is great
2
Useful for begginer
2
Good for begginers
2
Can compile and run .py files
2
Python extension is fast
2
Powerful Debugger
2
Extension Echosystem
2
Git out of the box
2
SFTP Workspace
2
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
2
Easy azure
2
Features rich
2
Awesome multi cursor support
1
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
1
Fast and ruby is built right in
1
More tools to integrate with vs
1
Better autocompletes than Atom
1
CMake support with autocomplete
1
'batteries included'
1
VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code

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Cons of Monaco Editor

Cons of Visual Studio Code

2
Microsoft

20
Slow startup
12
Poor refactoring
12
Resource hog at times
5
Poor UI Designer
4
Weak Ui design tools
2
Poor autocomplete
2
Poor in PHP

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What is Monaco Editor?

The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

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 Monaco Editor and Visual Studio Code?

CodeMirror

CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.

Vim

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

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