pre-commit vs Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio Code vs pre-commit: What are the differences?

  1. Extension Marketplaces: Visual Studio Code has a vast marketplace of extensions where users can find and install various extensions to enhance their coding experience. On the other hand, pre-commit does not have a dedicated marketplace for extensions.
  2. Integrated Terminal: Visual Studio Code comes with an integrated terminal, allowing developers to execute commands and run scripts without the need for an external terminal. pre-commit does not have this feature and relies on the terminal provided by the operating system.
  3. Debugging: Visual Studio Code has built-in debugging capabilities, enabling developers to set breakpoints, inspect variables, and step through their code. pre-commit is primarily focused on pre-commit hooks and does not provide built-in debugging functionalities.
  4. Language Support: Visual Studio Code supports a wide range of programming languages and provides features like syntax highlighting, code completion, and linting for these languages. pre-commit, on the other hand, is language-agnostic and can be used with any language.
  5. Task Runners: Visual Studio Code supports various task runners that allow developers to automate repetitive tasks, run build processes, and manage project workflows. pre-commit does not have native support for task runners.
  6. Interactive Editing: Visual Studio Code offers a more interactive editing experience with features like code refactoring, IntelliSense, and quick fixes. pre-commit focuses more on static code analysis and enforcing pre-commit hooks, rather than providing advanced editing features.

In summary, Visual Studio Code offers a more comprehensive and feature-rich development environment with its extension marketplace, integrated terminal, debugging capabilities, extensive language support, task runners, and interactive editing features. pre-commit, while focused on pre-commit hooks and static code analysis, lacks these advanced features.

Decisions about pre-commit and Visual Studio Code
Samriddhi Sinha
Machine Learning Engineer at Chefling · | 6 upvotes · 1M views

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.

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Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 12 upvotes · 1.3M views

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.

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Simon Ibssa
Student at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo · | 2 upvotes · 1.3M views

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 pre-commit
Pros of Visual Studio Code
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    • 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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      Customizable
    • 2
      Light
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      Big extension marketplace
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      Fast and ruby is built right in
    • 1
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    Cons of pre-commit
    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
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        Super Slow
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        Huge cpu usage with few installed extension
      • 8
        Microsoft sends telemetry data
      • 7
        Poor in PHP
      • 6
        It's MicroSoft
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        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
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        Bad Plugin Architecture
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        Powered by Electron
      • 1
        Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
      • 1
        Slow C++ Language Server

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      What is pre-commit?

      pre-commit checks your code for errors before you commit it. pre-commit is configurable.

      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 pre-commit and Visual Studio Code?
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