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Muhimen

Somewhat agree. But I would counter it...

Visual Studio = Visual Studio Code + a lot more

That means VSC is a subset of VS. And if it is a subset, that means VS has all the features(except light-weight) that VSC does.

After all, we can say the are similar. (my logic isn't the best, still bare it 😋)

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Artem Shubovych

I don't think VS is built in JS tho... Which means, VSC is definitely not a subset of VS

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Muhimen • Edited

I wasn't talking about the language, I was talking about the capabilities.

(it's actually TS, not JS)

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Ibne Nahian

TS is a superset of JS

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Artem Shubovych

You are missing the point: you can't implement lots of features VS has in JS. Like, not in this time and reality. This includes tons of .NET and C/C++ development tools like debuggers and optimizations.

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River

really? can you program scala 3 in vs? Can you even do scala 2? How about haskell? ocaml?

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Ibne Nahian • Edited

Why the hell anyone would ever want to write scala or Haskell on VS? VS is specially optimized for C# .NET. Also it can nicely handle C++, F#, Python, VB, JS & TS. Would you consider Goland or PyCharm for writing Scala, Haskel, OCaml? Your comparison is totally irrelevant.

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River

I was responding to the ridiculous claim that “VSC is a subset of VS”

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River • Edited

they're different products, VS has a fuck ton of features. Does that mean you can claim that any code editor is a subset of it? Ultimately there are zero shared components/ux between the 2, they're just 2 IDEs with different approaches and audiences