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Because VSCode is a fancy text editor, not a full-blown IDE like intellij. Even with myriads of extensions, the gap is real between the two.


> How do you know jetbrains new editor isn't a "Dom editor"?

> Because VSCode is a fancy text editor, not a full-blown IDE.

What does that have anything to respond to the question?

I kept seeing people making this claim as if there is a definition of what an IDE is. VSC has project-wide code anyalysis and step debug. It may not be a good IDE in YOUR opinion but tell me what definition of IDE are you using?




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