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Visual Studio Code is a wonderful text editor. But it's far from being a full-featured IDE.

• ska 10y ago
  Really? I find that really surprising. Because VS itself isn't anywhere close to a wonderful text editor. Like most IDE's, it is a mediocre text editor with a bunch of compelling (for certain workflows) tooling for project and build management, debugger, etc. Plus usable introspection. As a text editor though, a solid C+ at best. Is VS Code someone doing something radically different?
  • tracker1 10y ago
    VS Code started with atom shell (now electron), and a JS based editor that was being worked on for VisualStudio online... combined they were pretty compelling, and at the time so much faster than say Atom or Brackets... It's been my editor of choice since first trying it and only better with each regular release. The entire thing is opensource. Completely open source, rich plugin/extension community. Pretty much has become the editor of choice if you're working on node or go... more than decent with other platforms, and as a general editor. There are extensions to improve workflows, but all optional extensions. I have git history, git lense, eslint, docker, c# (works for .net core), go, jest, npm, npm intellisense, yandex-translate (makes vscode worthwhile by itself), and a couple others. I don't think I can go back... having the treeview, git integration, integrated console, it's all just way awesome to say the least.
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