> clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you That might not be a point in their favor. Once VS Code came out, a lot of programmers that were simp

> clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you That might not be a point in their favor. Once VS Code came out, a lot of programmers that were simply following their earlier training and using an IDE, learned how much you can do in a text editor. I've seen lots of "Why would anyone write code with Notepad?" over the years. This was largely rooted in Java, where the only option was to use an IDE. VS Code dispelled the myth that real programming has to happen in an IDE.