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Weird to compare an IDE and a text editor, though.
by efdee 7y ago
Weird to compare an IDE and a text editor, though.
- pmarin 7y agoVS CODE [1] is a text editor. Visual Studio [2] is the IDE. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/ [2] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
- efdee 7y agoVS Code has Intellisense, an integrated debugger, and much more. What makes it not an IDE?
- NoGravitas 7y agoVS Code and Sublime Text are comparable, though: they're both extensible text editors, not real IDEs.
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoVS Code ~= VS. It's a text editor, not an IDE (unless you consider things like VIM to be IDEs because you can use plugins to do IDE-like stuff with them.)
- temac 7y agoThat's kind of a marketing distinction. VS is not a kind of monolithic spaghetti monster system: internally, it is made of components, which provide a text editor, indexing for various languages, etc. You can do likewise with VS Code or other environments, except maybe some plugins are not installed by default. In the end it boils down to: how do we define an IDE? And even if it is about bundled capabilities, I would still be able to create a "dedicated" (would not need much modification) Linux distro and declare it to be an IDE. It was easier to distinguish IDE from other things in the MS-DOS era.
- efdee 7y agoWhat makes it not an IDE to you? VS Code has first class Intellisense, an integrated debugger, ...