VSCode does all of the former, at least for the two main languages I work with, TypeScript and Go. Prettier, ESLint and golangci-lint handle the style checks.
JetBrains says the problem is “users are unaware of what an IDE can do” but maybe it is the other way around?
Currently I am using Emacs and Goland as my main IDEs/editors and have tried vscode but the thing is - what vscode can support entirely depends on what LSP server can support. This can make or break vscode. For example - both vscode/emacs (via lsp-mode) throw errors/warnings in multi-module go projects. Even worse, if you are hacking your build chain the way some projects like Kubernetes do(via staging directory), lsp-server refuses to work entirely in `staging/` directory of the project.
I also saw that switching branches can confuse lsp-server.
All of these problems are basically non-existant in Goland(Intellij).So depending on complexity of a project, I would day it is worth using an IDE.
What’s nice that Jetbrains does in Typescript that VSCode doesn’t is automated refactoring. I can change or move a function anywhere in my project and all references are automatically updated.
VSCode does it to some extend, but the difference is night and day.
JetBrains says the problem is “users are unaware of what an IDE can do” but maybe it is the other way around?