The person you are responding to is talking about an actual IDE, not an extension to VS Code.
rust-analyzer is great and we have waiting for it a long, long time. But it is not an IDE. Neither is the MS C++ extension.
rust-analyzer is great and we have waiting for it a long, long time. But it is not an IDE. Neither is the MS C++ extension.
I've been using vscode for the last 5 years for all kinds of languages and have never though to myself "I wish I had an IDE"
The Rust and C++ extensions are very far from what an IDE offers. They only handle basic debugging and code completion/browsing. With a few more extensions you can a bit better, but again, you are doing the job that an IDE is supposed to solve for you.