Vim vs Visual Studio Code | What are the differences?

Vim

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Pros of Vim

Pros of Visual Studio Code

342
Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)
321
Fast
307
Highly configurable
290
Less mouse dependence
239
Lightweight
138
Speed
97
Plugins
94
Hardcore
80
It's for pros
64
Vertically split windows
24
Open-source
23
Modal editing
21
No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor
19
It stood the Test of Time
14
Unicode
11
Everything is on the keyboard
11
Dotfiles
11
Stick with terminal
10
VimPlugins
10
Flexible Indenting
9
Programmable
8
Hands stay on the keyboard
8
Efficient and powerful
8
Large number of Shortcuts
7
A chainsaw for text editing
7
Everywhere
6
Because its not Emacs
6
You cannot exit
6
Unmatched productivity
6
Modal editing changes everything
5
Developer speed
5
Super fast
5
Makes you a true bearded developer
5
Themes
4
Habit
4
EasyMotion
4
Intergrated into most editors
4
Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc
4
Most and most powerful plugins of any editor
3
Shortcuts
3
Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd
3
Intuitive, once mastered
3
Great on large text files
2
Perfect command line editor

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

Cons of Vim

Cons of Visual Studio Code

7
Ugly UI
2
Hard to learn

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 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.