 Is Visual Studio Code better than notepad++? You reached the right video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by DigiLink Academy, your number one source to learn programming fast and get to that six figure salary you desire. Our academy have a wide range of courses, including our 30 day developer lunch pad, our programmer interview course, also our mentorship program and much, much more. When you sign up for our free community, you get access to like-minded professional developers who wanna take your career to the next level and will provide you with access to all the resources that our academy can provide. So let's take the next step and sign up for our seven step free programming guide to really start to take your career to the next level. So let's click the link below to get started. I'll see you guys in the guide. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Before a lot of you programmers come and kill me and say, hey, Rod, this is no contest. You don't know what you're talking about. Visual Studio Code is way better than NoPath++. Why are you making this video? You're wasting time. And I wanna bring a different perspective to this video that's not as obvious as you guys may think. There's a lot of guys you may think, hey, if you compare these two tools, this is David versus Goliath. There's no reason that David's gonna win this battle and you already admitted in your title that you switched to it. So why you having this video? Now I wanna give you guys more perspective on why I made that decision and why I still have both tools installed on my computer. So it'll give you insights, not only with these two tools, but other tools that are competing that have similar use cases so that you can know which one you need to use, specific use cases, and really clear things up for you when it comes down to what development tools you're gonna use. So I have seven reasons why I switched to Visual Studio Code and I also wanna give you some perspective on why Notepad++ still has some use in my workflow and I wanna give you guys those reasons too so that you can, I know you're dealing with similar issues and we'll go from there. So that being said guys, Notepad++ is gonna always have a seat at the table, at least in the near future. Because it's lightweight, it's been around forever, got a brand name and it had the use cases. Even though I'm making the case for Visual Studio Code here, Notepad++ I have it in a lot of situations, especially on servers where you want, you don't wanna have just the basic Notepad, but you want something a little bit modern. Notepad++ is good for that. You don't want Visual Studio Code, which is a little bit heavier in a lot of cases than Notepad is perfect for those situations. But number one, the extensions in Visual Studio Code makes it a no-brainer guys. The extension options, I wasn't really sold on it at first because I just thought it was just like any other application that has plugins or extensions and you're gonna have these third-party developers who really are not serious about the actual tool, making these add-ins or extensions and they're not gonna keep them up to date. It's nothing worse than actually depending on a piece of extension and then the developer who created it stopped working on it and then a new release come out and then all of those projects you had in the past with that extension is useless. So that was one of the reasons why it kept me a while to leave Visual Studio Code, Notepad++ for Visual Studio Code, but I'm finding out kinda like with WordPress. As long as you're dealing with those high-end top developers in the platform, you're good and even Microsoft themselves makes extensions too. So stick with the bigger guys, pour your main plugin or extensions. You're gonna have situations where you use an extension that may not be as popular. As long as it's something that you don't use heavily all the time, every day, all day, you just need it for one specific project. No harm no foul, but you're gonna have those core extensions that you use all the time. You don't want that to be a one-off developer that may be a little shady, may not have a track record, and then you depend on that extension and the minute it requires an update or something like that, you are screwed. So be aware of that guys. Number two, one-stop shop. It's not, I'm a SQL developer guy, so I use SQL Management Studio a lot. And there's some stuff that I still have to go to SQL Management Studio for, but it's so great that I could actually use this in Visual Studio Code. Now, to be able to do basic selects, you have it right there. You don't have to bounce between applications. And it just makes it easier. I know a lot of you guys may think, right, that's nothing. You can just have both of them up and switch between applications. Yes, that's true. But there are some situations where you already have Visual Studio Code lunch. You just wanna do a basic select. It just makes that functionality more easier. And that's just one application guys. Once you start getting into other stuff like FTP and FileZilla, and you start to get into a lot of the cloud resources when you're starting about Google services and start stacking all of these different use cases on top of each other, that's when that one-stop shop argument starts to really get a lot of leverage and you start to really see the benefits of having that one area to go. Don't get me wrong. It's not gonna be the one tool that you use and don't use other tools. You will have to use other tools, especially once you start to get into heavy development, once you start to design, develop a lot of different objects. I'm just talking about for a lot of troubleshooting and analytical stuff when you're doing a lot of research and discovery at the beginning. Really liked tasks that you're bouncing between a lot of applications to figure things out. It's great for that guys. And it's free and in a lot of cases. So you really gotta leverage that from a workflow perspective and that one-stop to shop. I don't have a very powerful computer, at least right now. I plan on getting one in the future, but a lot of people don't have the money and resources to go get that powerful computer. This works great for that. I have a buddy, Brian Harrington. I shouldn't have said his name, but he has a ton of applications open. And he don't have a powerful computer. And he wonder why his computer always runs slow. And it's over a couple of days that he does this and it just drives me crazy. Cause when I'm looking over his shoulder doing co-reviews and his stuff running slow and I just want to just close some of that stuff down, especially with Google, a ton of tabs and you start to add that with ton up. It's just a recipe for disaster guys. Having that one application that can consolidate a lot of that, at least helps in that scenario. Number three community guys with whole Microsoft community, the open source, it's getting bigger and better. And it just makes that experience that much better when you go to searching and Googling something and you see, hey, they did this in a similar text editor, you're going to be really good. Which a lot of you guys may think a text editor is not that complex, right? But once you start getting into these deeper projects and then start to do a lot of troubleshooting, start to building stuff out of Visual Studio Code and seeing these error messages, that secured, that little extra that I'm talking about really makes my day. And I see somebody doing something exactly in the actual editor that I'm using, using the same plugin and they're getting the same error just really build that confidence level that's a good solution for me. So that's just a little extra, guys. I have a ton of this kind of stuff that we talk about in my premium courses and my seven step guide, links are below, guys. I can't cover everything here, I only got seven, but if you want more details on how to take your development skills to the next 11, 30 days and the tools that we use, go ahead, links are below, so sign up for that. That being said, number four, functionality, guys. Functionality, functionality, be functional. I'm not going to even touch this no more because it kind of goes in line with the extension, but you just, that additional functionality, building one stop shop, if all of us just start to add up on that deal. Number five, corporate backing. A lot of program language that does, that kind of falls short and don't necessarily be around long, this is why, because they don't have corporate backing. And it's not that important when it comes to certain application who actually got a ton of market share and have a unique use case from different program language, but once you start competing against other similar language like Python and Ruby or C-sharp and Java, and then you start to have Microsoft versus Oracle, and then you start to look at something like Go with Google and just other program language that don't have that corporate backing. You see how they are down on that list. That's why I like Visual Studio Code. It gives you that flexibility of open source, but it's backed by Microsoft. So you always know it's going to be in the, it's not going to fall about a wayside, at least on purpose, well, just because it don't get any attention, maybe Microsoft will change it up, but it's open source, so you don't know where that's going to go. And number seven guys, and this is something that's extra, it's a cool new tool, guys. It's nothing like having a cool new tool on your desktop that's everybody's using, everybody's liking, and it's just the tool that everybody default to, especially when you see that icon on your desk, people know AKA, he know what he's doing. Not to say, Netflix Plus don't have that, it's just that cool factor, guys. Nothing, it's hard to explain that. And seeing the level of developers, you understand that even the new guys, you guys know that cool new tool everybody got, hey, that's where we at. If you agree with me, comment below. If you disagree with me, comment below also. Let's start a conversation, guys. If you haven't already, support the channel, guys. We have some goodies in the description box for you. Go check out some of those premium courses. And if you haven't already, I'm going to put a link to my seven step guide here, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.