TeamCity vs Visual Studio Code

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TeamCity vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

  1. Integration capabilities: TeamCity is a continuous integration and deployment server while Visual Studio Code is a source code editor. TeamCity provides tools for automated building, testing, and deploying software projects. In contrast, Visual Studio Code focuses on providing an efficient code editing environment with features like IntelliSense and debugging tools.
  2. Scalability: TeamCity is designed to handle large-scale continuous integration tasks for teams working on complex projects. It offers features like build pipelines, parallel builds, and distributed setups. On the other hand, Visual Studio Code is more suited for individual developers or small teams working on smaller projects that do not require extensive continuous integration workflows.
  3. Extensibility: Visual Studio Code has a robust extension marketplace where users can find and install various extensions to enhance their coding experience. These extensions cover a wide range of functionalities from language support to debugging tools. In contrast, TeamCity's extensibility is more focused on integrating with different tools and systems for continuous integration purposes.
  4. User Interface: TeamCity offers a web-based user interface for managing and monitoring builds, projects, and pipelines. It provides detailed reports and analytics on build statuses, test results, and code coverage. Visual Studio Code, on the other hand, has a lightweight and customizable user interface tailored for code editing tasks. It allows users to personalize their editing environment with themes, extensions, and shortcuts.
  5. Version Control Integration: TeamCity integrates seamlessly with various version control systems like Git, Subversion, Mercurial, and Perforce. It can trigger builds based on code commits, pull requests, or other version control events. Visual Studio Code also supports version control integration through extensions like GitLens, which enhances the code editing experience with version control features. However, it does not have built-in functionalities for continuous integration like TeamCity.
  6. Cost: TeamCity is a commercial product offered by JetBrains with free licenses available for small teams and open-source projects. Visual Studio Code, on the other hand, is a free and open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It is available for download at no cost and supports a wide range of programming languages and platforms.

In Summary, TeamCity is a robust continuous integration server tailored for complex projects, while Visual Studio Code is a lightweight code editor focused on providing an efficient coding environment for individual developers and small teams.

Decisions about TeamCity and Visual Studio Code
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 · 1.2M 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 TeamCity
Pros of Visual Studio Code
  • 61
    Easy to configure
  • 37
    Reliable and high-quality
  • 32
    User friendly
  • 32
    On premise
  • 32
    Github integration
  • 18
    Great UI
  • 16
    Smart
  • 12
    Free for open source
  • 12
    Can run jobs in parallel
  • 8
    Crossplatform
  • 5
    Chain dependencies
  • 5
    Fully-functional out of the box
  • 4
    Great support by jetbrains
  • 4
    REST API
  • 4
    Projects hierarchy
  • 4
    100+ plugins
  • 3
    Personal notifications
  • 3
    Free for small teams
  • 3
    Build templates
  • 3
    Per-project permissions
  • 2
    Upload build artifacts
  • 2
    Smart build failure analysis and tracking
  • 2
    Ide plugins
  • 2
    GitLab integration
  • 2
    Artifact dependencies
  • 2
    Official reliable support
  • 2
    Build progress messages promoting from running process
  • 1
    Repository-stored, full settings dsl with ide support
  • 1
    Built-in artifacts repository
  • 1
    Powerful build chains / pipelines
  • 1
    TeamCity Professional is FREE
  • 0
    High-Availability
  • 0
    Hosted internally
  • 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 editor
  • 18
    Best code editor
  • 17
    Easy to get started with
  • 15
    Lots of extensions
  • 15
    Good for begginers
  • 15
    Crossplatform
  • 15
    Built on Electron
  • 14
    Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates
  • 14
    Extensions for everything
  • 14
    All Languages Support
  • 13
    Easy to use and learn
  • 12
    Extensible
  • 12
    "fast, stable & easy to use"
  • 11
    Ui design is great
  • 11
    Useful for begginer
  • 11
    Totally customizable
  • 11
    Git out of the box
  • 11
    Faster edit for slow computer
  • 10
    SSH support
  • 10
    Great community
  • 10
    Fast Startup
  • 9
    Great language support
  • 9
    It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it
  • 9
    Works With Almost EveryThing You Need
  • 9
    Powerful Debugger
  • 8
    Can compile and run .py files
  • 8
    Python extension is fast
  • 7
    Great document formater
  • 7
    Features rich
  • 6
    He is not Michael
  • 6
    Awesome multi cursor support
  • 6
    She is not Rachel
  • 6
    Extension Echosystem
  • 5
    VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn
  • 5
    SFTP Workspace
  • 5
    Very proffesional
  • 5
    Language server client
  • 5
    Easy azure
  • 4
    Has better support and more extentions for debugging
  • 4
    Supports lots of operating systems
  • 4
    Virtualenv integration
  • 4
    Excellent as git difftool and mergetool
  • 3
    Emmet preinstalled
  • 3
    More tools to integrate with vs
  • 3
    Has more than enough languages for any developer
  • 3
    Better autocompletes than Atom
  • 3
    'batteries included'
  • 2
    Microsoft
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    Light
  • 2
    Big extension marketplace
  • 2
    CMake support with autocomplete
  • 2
    Fast and ruby is built right in
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    VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code
  • 2
    Customizable

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Cons of TeamCity
Cons of Visual Studio Code
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    High costs for more than three build agents
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    Proprietary
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    User-friendly
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    User friendly
  • 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
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    Bad Plugin Architecture
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    Powered by Electron
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    Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
  • 1
    Slow C++ Language Server

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What is TeamCity?

TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.

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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