>VSCode is growing which is concerning, not from a competitive point of view but actually from the point of view that there is clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you. VSCode is a code editor with some features that you’d find in an IDE, and extensions that can provide additional functionality – so if people are turning to VSCode for developing it may imply that developers don’t know what a fully-featured IDE can give them.

I've found that VSCode can trivially be expanded to be more fully-featured than any IDE I've used -- includiding Eclipse, Idea and XCode.

It's not even the difficult kind of trying to make Vim or ST or even Emacs an "IDE-like" editor with a mismatch of third party plugins of varying quality and integration.

VSC has a few first-class, officially-supported (e.g. MS) plugins that immediately give you nearly all IDE superpowers (inline debugging, intellisense, build environments, git, remote development, testing, etc) with very tight integration.

In fact VSC is so well designed for extensibility / plugin integration, that even third party plugins feel native and integrated to the UI/experience. Despite it's origins as the Monaco editor or Visual Studio's "little cousin", it's more of a "a la cart IDE" today than a text editor + some plugins.

I'm not an Electron fan, but VSC is a great app.