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Visual Studio Code is not an IDE. It's just a bad named Editor

It has an integrated debugger and build options -- which is the minimal to NOT be an editor and be an IDE.

It also has some refactorings and even a console and plugins. What do you think it lacks to be an IDE?

Note that it's also also in early stages atm.

I disagree with this sentement.

I haven't used Visual Studio Code enough to be able to speak to it specifically, but editors like Atom and Sublime can be outfitted to basically be IDEs.

I can actually do more with Atom now than i could with Webstorm just a year ago.

atom + plugins, not just atom. Same with vs code. If we count plugins, emacs and vim are both ide's as well.

Well, in VS Code case, just VS Code is enough.

Plus, IntelliJ and Eclipse BOTH implement ALL of their functionality as plugins. It's just that they come with a default set of plugins pre-installed.

But the main selling point of Atom is it's plugins.

If you don't count the plugins, it's barely even an editor (even syntax highlighting is a plugin).

And I agree with the last part as well. Properly configured Emacs and vim can be used as IDEs, however they can also be used as editors.

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