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Capybara vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?
Developers describe Capybara as "Acceptance test framework for web applications". Capybara helps you test web applications by simulating how a real user would interact with your app. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. WebKit is supported through an external gem. 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.
Capybara can be classified as a tool in the "Testing Frameworks" category, while Visual Studio Code is grouped under "Text Editor".
"Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Capybara, while over 237 developers mention "Powerful multilanguage IDE" as the leading cause for choosing Visual Studio Code.
Capybara and Visual Studio Code are both open source tools. It seems that Visual Studio Code with 78.4K GitHub stars and 10.9K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Capybara with 8.82K GitHub stars and 1.29K GitHub forks.
Asana, Intuit, and Yahoo! are some of the popular companies that use Visual Studio Code, whereas Capybara is used by GrowthHackers, sQuidd.io, and Indiegogo. Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1104 company stacks & 2301 developers stacks; compared to Capybara, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 20 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 Capybara
- Best acceptance test framework for Ruby on Rails apps12
- Synchronous with Rack::Test2
- Fast with Rack::Test1
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE324
- Fast290
- Front-end develop out of the box183
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense151
- Very basic but free134
- Git integration115
- Intellisense99
- Faster than Atom72
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration46
- Great Refactoring Tools41
- Good Plugins38
- Terminal36
- Superb markdown support36
- Open Source33
- Extensions27
- Large & up-to-date extension community25
- Awesome UI25
- Powerful and fast22
- Portable20
- Best editor16
- Best code editor16
- Easy to get started with15
- Built on Electron14
- Good for begginers14
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates14
- Crossplatform14
- Lots of extensions13
- Extensions for everything12
- All Languages Support12
- Extensible11
- Totally customizable11
- Ui design is great11
- Useful for begginer11
- Faster edit for slow computer11
- Easy to use and learn11
- Git out of the box10
- "fast, stable & easy to use"10
- Great community9
- Great language support9
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it9
- SSH support8
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need8
- Powerful Debugger8
- Fast Startup8
- Features rich7
- Python extension is fast7
- Can compile and run .py files7
- Great document formater7
- Awesome multi cursor support6
- He is not Michael6
- She is not Rachel6
- 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
- Very proffesional4
- Supports lots of operating systems3
- Emmet preinstalled3
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool3
- 'batteries included'3
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Virtualenv integration3
- Light2
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- More tools to integrate with vs2
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Better autocompletes than Atom2
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Cons of Capybara
- Hard to make reproducible tests when using with browser1
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup38
- Resource hog at times22
- Poor refactoring19
- Poor UI Designer12
- Weak Ui design tools11
- Poor autocomplete9
- Microsoft8
- Poor in PHP7
- Poor at Python5
- Super Slow4
- Poor intellisense. poor java4
- No color Intergrator3
- No built in live Preview3
- Poor in Python3
- No Built in Browser Preview3
- Dilshad3
- Huge cpu usage with few installed extension3
- Microsoft sends telemetry data3
- Very basic for java development and buggy at times3
- Bad Plugin Architecture2
- Electron1