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Tectonic vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?

Introduction:

Tectonic and Visual Studio Code are two popular tools used for software development, each with its unique features and functionalities. Understanding the key differences between the two can help developers choose the most suitable tool for their projects.

  1. Language Support: Visual Studio Code is known for its extensive language support, with a wide range of programming languages and frameworks readily available. On the other hand, Tectonic primarily focuses on supporting the LaTeX typesetting system, making it a preferred choice for technical and scientific documents.

  2. Interactivity: Visual Studio Code offers a more interactive development environment with features like debugging, intellisense, and extensions, making it suitable for a wide variety of projects. In contrast, Tectonic is more specialized and lacks the same level of interactivity, focusing more on efficient LaTeX compilation and document formatting.

  3. Community and Support: Visual Studio Code has a large and active community of developers, providing ample resources, plugins, and support for customization. Tectonic, while efficient in its niche, may have a smaller community and fewer resources available for troubleshooting and customization.

  4. Cost: Visual Studio Code is free to download and use, making it accessible to a wide range of developers without any cost barriers. On the other hand, Tectonic may require a license or payment for certain premium features or services, which can impact the overall cost of using the tool.

  5. Platform Compatibility: Visual Studio Code is designed to be compatible with various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, providing flexibility for developers to work across different platforms seamlessly. Tectonic, while available on multiple platforms, may have differences in performance or compatibility based on the operating system used.

  6. Scope of Use: Visual Studio Code is a versatile tool suitable for a broad range of development tasks, from web development to mobile app development, providing a comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE). Tectonic, as a specialized tool for LaTeX documents, is more focused on specific use cases within the academic and scientific communities.

In Summary, understanding the key differences between Tectonic and Visual Studio Code, such as language support, interactivity, community and support, cost, platform compatibility, and scope of use, can help developers decide which tool aligns best with their project requirements.

Decisions about Tectonic and Visual Studio Code
Samriddhi Sinha
Machine Learning Engineer at Chefling · | 6 upvotes · 1M views
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
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BracketsBracketsIntelliJ IDEAIntelliJ IDEAPyCharmPyCharm
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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 · 1.4M views
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
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GoLandGoLandSublime TextSublime Text
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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
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Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
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Sublime TextSublime Text
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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 Tectonic
Pros of Visual Studio Code
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    • 340
      Powerful multilanguage IDE
    • 309
      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
    • 9
      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
    • 6
      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
    • 5
      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
    • 2
      Customizable
    • 2
      Light
    • 2
      Big extension marketplace
    • 2
      Fast and ruby is built right in
    • 1
      File:///C:/Users/ydemi/Downloads/yuksel_demirkaya_webpa

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    Cons of Tectonic
    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
      • 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
      • 2
        Bad Plugin Architecture
      • 2
        Powered by Electron
      • 1
        Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes
      • 1
        Slow C++ Language Server

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      What is Tectonic?

      A CoreOS + Kubernetes platform to run Linux containers.

      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 Tectonic and Visual Studio Code?
      Git
      Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
      GitHub
      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
      Docker
      The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
      npm
      npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
      TypeScript
      TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
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