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>Obviously VS Code is not an IDE (as VS is)

OBVIOUSLY? :D VS Code starts looking more and more like an IDE to me :-) Still looking forward to hear what people define as an IDE!

Thank you for your detailed response by the way, not picking on your post, just curious what everybody finds so "unIDEish" about VS Code.

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I stands for "Integrated" in IDE. Project generation, code inspection, source control, database access, refactoring, debugging, test running, etc are integrated.

Visual Studio Code generates project via third party tool - dotnet new. Refactoring, code completion is done via third party tool - Roslyn (?). Etc. It's an editor with plugins. Unlike Visual Studio or Jetbrains Rider.

So Eclipse isn't an IDE either because all functionality is in individual plugins?

Eclipse always been resource hungry sublime text java clone.

Are you saying Sublime Text existed prior to Eclipse?

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