> Sounds like excuses. Get a bigger team, smaller scope, or more money. That sounds ludicrous. A bigger team or more money are incredibly difficult, especially

> Sounds like excuses. Get a bigger team, smaller scope, or more money. That sounds ludicrous. A bigger team or more money are incredibly difficult, especially for hobbyist and open source. And the whole goal of this idea is to reduce the scope of projects in the first place! It's impossible to reduce the scope if it requires something that might be as big as the engine itself. - > Lapsus linguae. I meant to write debugging. So read it as, debugging JS in JS VM, isn't as good as debugging JS in JVM and vice versa (JVM in JS). But the Javascript doesn't run inside the JVM or inside the Electron process. It happens in a completely separate process! It's the same for the syntax highlighting: it happens inside the Language Server for VSCode, and it's probably the same for JetBrains when using Typescript too. - > Implying your example isn't cherry-picked? Really? How much have you used VSCode for languages with other VMs? Of course it's cherry-picked, but this is how counterexamples work. The point is that a JetBrains IDE isn't by definition "better integrated", there are several more factors.