VS is unrelated to VS Code. VS is a full IDE for C++ and C# and the other .NET languages (and some other things like C to a lesser extent). VS Code is a decent

VS is unrelated to VS Code. VS is a full IDE for C++ and C# and the other .NET languages (and some other things like C to a lesser extent). VS Code is a decent text editor with a good plugin ecosystem. It's faster to start (if it doesn't have too many slow plugins) than most IDEs and easier to get used to than vi-based editors or EMACS. And unlike Sublime Text it's free. Unlike Notepad++ it's cross-platform. I personally use CLion for C (as well as Markdown, CMake, and shell scripts that are part of the same project as the C), PyCharm for Python, DataGrip for SQL, and VS Code for various text tasks like log file analysis and quick note taking. It's a handy editor, very useful for ad-hoc work but not really advantageous compared to a full IDE for most regular day-to-day work IMO.