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Followers54.4K

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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

Samriddhi Sinha

Data Scientist at Cuddle · Sep 26, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 155.7K views

Chose

over

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.

Kamaleshwar BN

Head of Engineering at Dibiz Pte. Ltd. · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 353.4K 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 · 340.5K 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
3
More features than Ace
1
Microsoft Product
1
Accessibility
1
Power vscode, with all it's features
1
Good support for none-monospace fonts

301
Powerful multilanguage IDE
264
Fast
168
Front-end develop out of the box
145
Support TypeScript IntelliSense
121
Very basic but free
99
Git integration
85
Intellisense
69
Faster than Atom
40
Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
36
Great Refactoring Tools
34
Superb markdown support
32
Good Plugins
26
Terminal
21
Large & up-to-date extension community
18
Open Source
17
Extensions
16
Portable
15
Powerful and fast
15
Awesome UI
13
Built on Electron
12
Best code editor
11
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
10
Crossplatform
10
Easy to get started with
9
Extensible
9
Best editor
9
Lots of extensions
9
All Languages Support
8
Extensions for everything
8
Good for begginers
8
Easy to use and learn
8
Ui design is great
7
Totally customizable
7
Great community
7
"fast, stable & easy to use"
7
Faster edit for slow computer
7
Git out of the box
7
Useful for begginer
7
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
6
Great language support
6
SSH support
5
Great document formater
5
Powerful Debugger
5
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
5
She is not Rachel
5
Fast Startup
4
Awesome multi cursor support
4
Easy azure
4
Features rich
4
Python extension is fast
4
Extension Echosystem
4
Language server client
4
SFTP Workspace
4
Can compile and run .py files
4
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
3
Has more than enough languages for any developer
3
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
3
'batteries included'
3
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
2
VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
2
Better autocompletes than Atom
2
CMake support with autocomplete
2
Emmet preinstalled
2
Virtualenv integration
2
More tools to integrate with vs
2
Fast and ruby is built right in
1
Very proffesional
1
Light

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Cons of Monaco Editor

Cons of Visual Studio Code

3
Microsoft

27
Slow startup
17
Resource hog at times
14
Poor refactoring
9
Poor UI Designer
8
Weak Ui design tools
5
Poor autocomplete
4
Poor in PHP
2
Microsoft
2
Poor at Python
1
Poor in Python
1
Dilshad
1
Super Slow

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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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