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Packer

Stacks583

Followers565

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Votes42

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Followers165.6K

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Packer vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Developers describe Packer as "Create identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration". Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images. 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.

Packer and Visual Studio Code are primarily classified as "Infrastructure Build" and "Text Editor" tools respectively.

"Cross platform builds" is the top reason why over 24 developers like Packer, while over 237 developers mention "Powerful multilanguage IDE" as the leading cause for choosing Visual Studio Code.

Packer 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 Packer with 9.03K GitHub stars and 2.46K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1104 company stacks & 2301 developers stacks; compared to Packer, which is listed in 113 company stacks and 20 developer stacks.

Decisions about Packer and Visual Studio Code

Kamaleshwar BN

Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · Jul 8, 2020 | 12 upvotes · 1.3M 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 · 1.3M 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!

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Pros of Packer

Pros of Visual Studio Code

27
Cross platform builds
9
Vm creation automation
4
Bake in security
1
Good documentation
1
Easy to use

340
Powerful multilanguage IDE
308
Fast
193
Front-end develop out of the box
158
Support TypeScript IntelliSense
142
Very basic but free
126
Git integration
106
Intellisense
78
Faster than Atom
53
Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration
45
Great Refactoring Tools
44
Good Plugins
42
Terminal
38
Superb markdown support
36
Open Source
35
Extensions
26
Awesome UI
26
Large & up-to-date extension community
24
Powerful and fast
22
Portable
18
Best code editor
18
Best editor
17
Easy to get started with
15
Lots of extensions
15
Good for begginers
15
Crossplatform
15
Built on Electron
14
Extensions for everything
14
Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
14
All Languages Support
13
Easy to use and learn
12
"fast, stable & easy to use"
12
Extensible
11
Ui design is great
11
Totally customizable
11
Git out of the box
11
Useful for begginer
11
Faster edit for slow computer
10
SSH support
10
Great community
10
Fast Startup
9
Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
9
Great language support
9
Powerful Debugger
9
It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
8
Can compile and run .py files
8
Python extension is fast
7
Features rich
7
Great document formater
6
He is not Michael
6
Extension Echosystem
6
She is not Rachel
6
Awesome multi cursor support
5
VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
5
Language server client
5
SFTP Workspace
5
Very proffesional
5
Easy azure
4
Has better support and more extentions for debugging
4
Supports lots of operating systems
4
Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
4
Virtualenv integration
3
Better autocompletes than Atom
3
Has more than enough languages for any developer
3
'batteries included'
3
More tools to integrate with vs
3
Emmet preinstalled
2
VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
2
CMake support with autocomplete
2
Microsoft
2
Customizable
2
Light
2
Big extension marketplace
2
Fast and ruby is built right in
1
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Cons of Packer

Cons of Visual Studio Code

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46
Slow startup
29
Resource hog at times
20
Poor refactoring
13
Poor UI Designer
11
Weak Ui design tools
10
Poor autocomplete
8
Super Slow
8
Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
8
Microsoft sends telemetry data
7
Poor in PHP
6
It's MicroSoft
3
Poor in Python
3
No Built in Browser Preview
3
No color Intergrator
3
Very basic for java development and buggy at times
3
No built in live Preview
3
Electron
2
Bad Plugin Architecture
2
Powered by Electron
1
Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
1
Slow C++ Language Server

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What is Packer?

Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.

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 Packer and Visual Studio Code?

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

Terraform

With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.

Vagrant

Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Ansible

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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