> What does this even mean? It means if I want to use VS Code for anything other than code editing then I’m out of luck. Where as alternatives are text editors

> What does this even mean? It means if I want to use VS Code for anything other than code editing then I’m out of luck. Where as alternatives are text editors first with code editing support. VS Code wants to be in your way with a complete set of tools, even including a terminal. And your OS already has one of those. > Isn't this exactly what vi and emacs proponents cite as a benefit? I don’t know, is it? Are we talking text editors or IDEs? The difference being that you can configure vi and emacs to be any kind of workspace. An IDE has a text editor, a text editor can be configured to be an IDE. Similar but not the same.