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Categorizing VS Code as akin to Microsoft Word or Google Docs seems...profoundly weird and more confusing than elucidating. I'm gonna stick with "IDE", personal

• skyyler 3y ago
  Microsoft Word and Google Docs are _Word Processors_ which are technically for editing text but are now much closer to desktop publishing software, especially with the emphasis on styling and graphics. emacs, vim, and VSCode are _Source Code Editors_ which are a type of text editor. You can make a source code editor into an IDE by adding integrated compiling and debugging tools.
• layer8 3y ago
  Word and Google Docs are not text editors [0], they are word processors [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor_program
  • a_wild_dandan 3y ago
    Yep. I didn't call Word/Docs/Code text editors, and all for the same reason. That's the joke. Guess I was too cute by half.
    • skyyler 3y ago
      You're missing that IDEs have additional functionality not built into text editors or source code editors.
      • a_wild_dandan 3y ago
        Indeed I am. What universal IDE functionality is missing from VSCode? My vanilla install is aces for full-stack TypeScript work, but I'd love to know what I'm missing!
        • skyyler 3y ago
          I'm sure you would!
• eviks 3y ago
  That would indeed be weird given the fact that the text editor does not edit rich text like Word does