I always take this kind of opinions with a grain of salt but I also don't like bloated IDEs, like the author. But it's a general and trivial comparison. Like u

I always take this kind of opinions with a grain of salt but I also don't like bloated IDEs, like the author. But it's a general and trivial comparison. Like using MS word vs markdown, or Ubuntu vs Arch or Alpine. It all comes down to your use case and it's not black and white. My Swiss knife is VS Code, arguably an IDE-minus, or an editor-plus. And given that I work all day on software it happens that I occasionally go down (vim) or up (XCode, Visual Studio, Android Studio) and I have no problem with that.