Alternatives to Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's product. These alternatives are other published catalog entities that share a job-to-be-done. This is not an affiliate grid and not a paid inclusion list.

Shortlist

Why these names

• Cursor — human 90, agent 84. Cursor is an AI-native code editor forked from VS Code. Tab completion, inline edit, and agent-style multi-file tasks are the human product — and they are excellent, which is why so many engineers switched in 2025–2026. Agent score is high because of rules files, SKILL-like. Compare with Visual Studio Code
• Replit — human 83, agent 75. Replit is a browser IDE, hosting platform, and increasingly an agent that builds apps from a prompt. The human magic is zero-setup: a REPL in a tab. Agent features (Agent, APIs, deployments) exist and are improving, but the source of truth is Replit's hosted environment. Compare with Visual Studio Code