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An IDE is so much more. For instance, refactoring features. Even Microsoft defines VSCode as a "code editor" and not an IDE.
by computerex 10y ago
An IDE is so much more. For instance, refactoring features. Even Microsoft defines VSCode as a "code editor" and not an IDE.
- spion 10y agoVSCode does have basic refactoring features.
- _tulpa 10y agoHave you even used VSCode? It has refactoring, and revision control integrated. You can compile and run code, you can set breakpoints and step through execution. That's waaaaay more than just an editor.
- Pharylon 10y agoThink of "code editor" and "IDE" as two endpoints on a continuum. VsCode is less of an IDE than Visual Studio or Eclipse, but more of an IDE than Atom. It has has debugging and task running, after all. Sounds a lot like an IDE.
- andresgottlieb 10y agoExactly, it never ceases to amaze me how often people arbitrarily categorize stuff as is/isn't
- int_19h 10y agoAs someone who started on FoxBASE, Turbo BASIC and Turbo Pascal (all for DOS), it's amusing to read comments like these. We certainly called these things IDEs, and the sole reason was that you could build your program directly in them, and the debug it, breakpoints and all. I wonder what someone coming from an earlier era would have to say on that...
- flukus 10y agoI don't think refactoring was even a term when the first IDE's came out.