I don’t know, that’s kind of an arbitrary differentiation. I guess the full Visual Studio is not technically an IDE either then because the GUI process itself d

I don’t know, that’s kind of an arbitrary differentiation. I guess the full Visual Studio is not technically an IDE either then because the GUI process itself does not compile anything. It calls out to the standard Microsoft C++ compiler or the dotnet compiler or whatever else it happens to be working with... like Python. From the point of you of the user they are all an IDE I think.