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The lines have blurred. I would put it more in the editor category. You really need to download plugins for it to come close to an IDE and it's not as feature c

The lines have blurred. I would put it more in the editor category. You really need to download plugins for it to come close to an IDE and it's not as feature complete as say pycharm or Clion. I would say VSCode is more in the code editor category, but as I said before the lines are blurring. With enough plugins and configuration even vim and emacs can straddle that line. In general IDE's tend to have more features less bugs, and have all of these features out of the box.

jeffterns8 5y ago
That's just confusing big-brand mature IDE suites as the definition for IDE though. Any dev working on an actual project is going to be using those tools with plugins/extensions, configured as an IDE. A dev would require completely separate tools that provide that functionality to say otherwise.
- deltasixeight 5y ago
  No it's not. "Big branded" IDE's are actually more feature complete in terms of intellisense and auto complete and auto formatting when compared to "code editors" that are fully loaded with plugins. They usually achieve much better integration with the projects and this is not including the side features like remote development or database browsers. VSCode comes close to an IDE much closer than vim or emacs when fully loaded on plugins but even in this case jetbrains edges them out.