Vim VS Visual Studio Code

Compare Vim vs Visual Studio Code and see what are their differences.

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Vim Visual Studio Code
424 2,838
34,912 158,095
1.5% 1.0%
9.9 10.0
about 21 hours ago about 20 hours ago
Vim Script TypeScript
Vim License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.

Visual Studio Code

Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Vim and Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

thonny - Python IDE for beginners

Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE

reactide - Reactide is the first dedicated IDE for React web application development.

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

Spyder - Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment

calcurse - A text-based calendar and scheduling application

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

swiper - Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing