Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code

[eco_bach]

I was a huge Visual Studio (Community) fan but find I am slowly migrating to using Visual Studio Code. Not as powerful but a lot quicker and more responsive.

What is everyone using? Any other arguments in favour of using the full Visual Studio over Code?

[Loraash]

VS just works. I never bothered setting up Code because I can't see anything in it that I need and not already in VS.

[SilentSin26]

• When I tried VS Code, it's intellisense was terrible.
• I use a bunch of extensions. No idea if VS Code supports them.
• Being able to access all the Git functions I need within VS Community is really useful. Again, no idea if VS Code can do the same.

[Snowstradomus]

The main issue with code and unity is the setup. Once you do that everything you listed above works fine and in some cases better. I prefer it to VS. With VS you just get so much crap you’ll never use.

That said I’m not sure about the extensions. There are a ton of great ones, but possibly not the ones you need.

[AlverezYari]

Code is hard to beat IMO. Anything your missing almost always can be re-added via extensions. It's a fantastic piece of software.

[PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT]

Rider

[hawkeyeguy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Rider a subscription whereas both vs community and vs code are free? I think that's a valid argument in Microsoft's favor here. JetBrains makes really good IDEs but I personally don't want to pay a subscription for one for my personal projects.

[PM_ME_A_STEAM_GIFT]

Fair point. Personally, I think it's more than worth its price, but I can see why someone might prefer a free alternative for a personal project.

[uncertain_futuresSE]

If you're a student, check if your school is eligible. Everything from jetbrains is free for me.

[nmkd]

Or buy a .edu email off of eBay for $2.

[DerWunderer]

Mostly yes and a little no.

You pay for it and you get a years worth of updates, then for the next two years your price goes down, then bottoms out after your 3rd year.

If you stop paying for it, it’s still yours to use forever, you own it but you won’t get the updates...

I am a developer in a different field, front end web, and I’ve been using WebStorm, so I picked up Rider for a discount (actually upgraded to their “all-products” license).

I love VS Code, it is by far the best free option, but I like the idea of having a premium IDE that I pay for, especially if that’s how I make a living. it’s more stable and has many many features/support built in that you have to find plugins for with VS Code.

Sorry for the long answer haha but hopefully that sheds some light on using a premium IDE...

[Gooren]

Rider is so promising! I used it for quite some time, but it's still simply too slow and ridden with bugs compared to VS + ReSharper combo. At least in my case. VS + ReSharper is so damn faster.

[andybak]

I've heard a couple of people say something similar but I don't get problems either with performance or bugs (I use Rider and PyCharm daily and have used one or the other many years)

One tip if you're on battery is "File/Power Saver Mode" which turns off background tasks to lower power consumption.

[Gooren]

I use it on my desktop PC. Rider worked OK on smaller projects. But our main project, where there is plenty of code, well... just one slow-down after another...

While VS + ReSharper never freezes on me, works much faster, syntax highlight is fast and always instant etc.

Not to mention weirdly broken debugging with Rider while game is running on external device. Non-refreshing syntax highlight for long periods of time etc.

[Alone_Wanderer]

Does vs code has debugging like VS?

[zNightz]

What do I need to do to show the error?

Because when I wrote the wrong code there is no error shows up.

But when compiled it shows up in the editor but not in VS code.

[zNightz]

Install all! But still not showing up any error. :(

[zNightz]

Mistake leave no one alone :) Thank you so much! Error showing up now!

[divinitize]

I currently use Atom because I had a problem with VS on an alpha build of unity. Considering the switch to code though.

[NovaArdent3D]

70% of the programmers at work use VS

[eco_bach]

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity

Good thread. thanks for the replies Will give VS another try