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RubyMine vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?
Developers describe RubyMine as "The Most Intelligent Ruby and Rails IDE". JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities. 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.
RubyMine and Visual Studio Code are primarily classified as "Integrated Development Environment" and "Text Editor" tools respectively.
"Productive" is the top reason why over 61 developers like RubyMine, while over 237 developers mention "Powerful multilanguage IDE" as the leading cause for choosing Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio Code is an open source tool with 78.4K GitHub stars and 10.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Visual Studio Code's open source repository on GitHub.
PedidosYa, Yahoo!, and triGo GmbH are some of the popular companies that use Visual Studio Code, whereas RubyMine is used by Movielala, Yammer, and Captain Up. Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1104 company stacks & 2298 developers stacks; compared to RubyMine, which is listed in 91 company stacks and 46 developer stacks.
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.
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.
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 RubyMine
- Productive63
- Ruby on rails50
- Ruby39
- Great UI35
- Version control28
- Rubby Debugger22
- Detecting Code Styles17
- Unit Testing14
- EditorConfig12
- Database Tools9
- RVM as a Remote SDK5
- Debugger Console5
- CSS3 Enhancements4
- Mercurial / Git4
- Free for Education and Training4
- Slim Formatter3
- Inline Variables View2
- Great UX2
- Smart Backspace Indent2
- Easy to use2
- Free for Open-Source Projects2
- Free2
- Go-to-definition actually works2
- Postfix Code Completion2
- Better Code Annotations2
- The run configurations for anything1
- Unit Testing Help1
- Chef Integration1
- Puppet Support1
- Emmet Preview1
- PhoneGap/Cordova/Ionic1
- Scratch Files1
- Log Viewer1
- 50% Discount for Startups1
- Free for Students1
- Free for Teachers1
- Great Community1
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE334
- Fast299
- Front-end develop out of the box189
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense156
- Very basic but free140
- Git integration121
- Intellisense104
- Faster than Atom76
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration50
- Great Refactoring Tools43
- Good Plugins41
- Terminal40
- Superb markdown support36
- Open Source35
- Extensions32
- Large & up-to-date extension community26
- Awesome UI26
- Powerful and fast23
- Portable21
- Best code editor18
- Best editor17
- Easy to get started with16
- Good for begginers15
- Crossplatform15
- Built on Electron14
- Lots of extensions14
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates14
- Extensions for everything13
- All Languages Support13
- Extensible12
- "fast, stable & easy to use"11
- Git out of the box11
- Useful for begginer11
- Ui design is great11
- Easy to use and learn11
- Faster edit for slow computer11
- Totally customizable11
- Great community10
- Powerful Debugger9
- SSH support9
- Great language support9
- Fast Startup9
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it9
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need9
- Can compile and run .py files8
- Python extension is fast7
- Features rich7
- Great document formater7
- She is not Rachel6
- He is not Michael6
- Awesome multi cursor support6
- Very proffesional5
- Easy azure5
- Language server client5
- Extension Echosystem5
- SFTP Workspace5
- VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn5
- Has better support and more extentions for debugging4
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool4
- Virtualenv integration4
- 'batteries included'3
- Better autocompletes than Atom3
- Supports lots of operating systems3
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Emmet preinstalled3
- More tools to integrate with vs3
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- Light2
- Microsoft2
- Customizable2
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Big extension marketplace1
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Cons of RubyMine
- Slow2
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup44
- Resource hog at times27
- Poor refactoring20
- Microsoft15
- Poor UI Designer13
- Weak Ui design tools11
- Poor autocomplete10
- Microsoft sends telemetry data8
- Poor in PHP7
- Huge cpu usage with few installed extension7
- Super Slow6
- It's MicroSoft5
- No built in live Preview3
- No Built in Browser Preview3
- Very basic for java development and buggy at times3
- No color Intergrator3
- Poor in Python3
- Electron3
- Bad Plugin Architecture2
- Powered by Electron2
- Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes1
