Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Notepad++

Stacks11.4K

Followers8.6K

+ 1

Votes404

Visual Studio Code

Stacks69K

Followers54.4K

+ 1

Votes1.8K

Add tool

Notepad++ vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Notepad++: Free source code editor and Notepad replacement. 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; 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.

Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.

"Syntax for all languages that i use", "Tabbed ui" and "Great code editor" are the key factors why developers consider Notepad++; whereas "Powerful multilanguage IDE", "Fast" and "Front-end develop out of the box" are the primary reasons why Visual Studio Code is favored.

Visual Studio Code is an open source tool with 79.3K GitHub stars and 11.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Visual Studio Code's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1133 company stacks & 2378 developers stacks; compared to Notepad++, which is listed in 187 company stacks and 499 developer stacks.

Decisions about Notepad++ 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 · 353.5K 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.

Andrey Ginger

Managing Partner at WhiteLabelDevelopers · May 18, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 167.8K views

Chose

over

(

)

Since communication with Github is not necessary, the Atom is less convenient in working with text and code. Sublim's support and understanding of projects is best for us. Notepad for us is a completely outdated solution with an unacceptable interface. We use a good theme for Sublim ayu-dark

Pros of Notepad++

Pros of Visual Studio Code

100
Syntax for all languages that i use
59
Tabbed ui
55
Great code editor
51
Fast and lightweight
37
Plugins
27
Nice GUI
26
Regex & Special Character Search & Replace
14
Fast startup
9
Themes
9
Application is free, and plugins are too
5
Free
3
100% Free
3
Very Lightweight
2
Column selection
1
Cos it's seck
1
Nice gui. are you kidding me?
1
Awesome autocomplete
1
Easy edit on FTP servers (NppFTP)

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

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of Notepad++

Cons of Visual Studio Code

3
Can't open large files
1
Can't install more advanced packets
0
No default plugin manager

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

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

- No public GitHub repository available -

What is 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.

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.

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

What companies use Notepad++?

What companies use Visual Studio Code?

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with Notepad++?

What tools integrate with Visual Studio Code?

WakaTime

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

What are some alternatives to Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code?

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.

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.

UltraEdit

It is a powerful, fast, and secure text editor whose helpful features make every day life easier for any user type and programming language. Windows, Mac, Linux.

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.

Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

See all alternatives

Interest over time

News about Notepad++

More news

News about Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code November 2020

(code.visualstudio.com)

Dec 11, 2020

Coding and learning with VS Code on Chromebooks

(code.visualstudio.com)

Dec 3, 2020

Visual Studio Code October 2020