"VS code is nowhere near a proper IDE like VS or IDEA" This statement kind of misses the point: it's not that 'VS Code is an IDE', rather it's that the value o

"VS code is nowhere near a proper IDE like VS or IDEA" This statement kind of misses the point: it's not that 'VS Code is an IDE', rather it's that the value of an IDE may not be as much as what some think it is. I would have made the same conclusion a decade ago, but with sufficient plugin/ability ... I have come to prefer VS Code along with many others and have little reason to go back to using an IDE. That's not to deny the IDE uses case - for specific kinds of projects it's fine, but there's no doubt VS Code - a non-IDE - is picking up in an a ton of areas wherein traditionally and IDE would have been a first choice.