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What functionality is Vscode lacking for it to be an IDE?
Seems unnecessarily pedantic 🤷
But aren't the plugins also basically part of the electron app after installing? But I have no idea how electron, vscode and their plugins acrually work.
So if I ship a version of vscode with a few extensions pre installed I can call it an ide?
Integrated you mean? Into the development environment? 😉
I think that whether it needs plugins or not to do the job isn’t really relevant.
You can develop software in a large number of languages including writing the code (with intelligent code completion), building it, committing it to source control and running and debugging it.
If it didn’t use plugins to do that then it’d huge and take ages to start up.
You could call vscode a "DIY IDE Building Kit" because everybody is using it that way.
After you put all the extensions together you basically got a fully featured "IDE" for most languages out there.
Nobody I know uses vscode like a simple "code editor".
What’s different between Vscode and other editors like Vim is how easy it is to make it a fully fledged IDE. Usually a notification pops up about analyzers being available, and if you click accept it’s done. Just one click of a button.
With Vim it’s not that easy. You need to install many separate plugins just to make it a fraction of an IDE.
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