Visual Studio Code is a source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and mac-OS. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git

Product Vision

  • With Visual Studio Code, Microsoft aims to combine the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle.
  • Personal and Team productivity
  • Modern Development
  • Constant Innovation

Customer Feedback Analysis

  • Weak UI Design tools
  • Resource hog at times
  • Slow startup
  • Poor refactoring
  • Huge CPU usage with few installed extension
  • Poor autocomplete
  • No built in live preview
  • Very basic for java development and buggy at times

Competitors

  • Notepad++
  • Sublime Text
  • Atom
  • Brackets
  • CodePen

Product Planning

Top 5 features Visual Code should consider adding

  1. Collaborate with others and compare projects for future development.
  2. Multi cursor support
  3. Built in live preview
  4. Built in learning tools
  5. Optimised CPU usage with few installed extensions.

References

product-management-foundations , Udemy course on PM

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