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Discussion on: Why Are Some Developers so Allergic to IDEs?

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Petr Stříbný

I find it funny that some people here talk about VSCode as it is not IDE. It has integrated debugger, command line, and what not through extensions - it is IDE (Integrated development environment) for sure.

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Alex Fedorov

It depends. I’d call it something like “Integrate-it-yourself-development-environment.”

I expect certain things work out of the box for IDE. For example, if I install package for Python, I expect debugger for python, refactorings for python, intelligent code analysis for python, auto-imports for python, etc.

With VSCode I had experienced so far, that you need to collect a lot of plugins, and some of them may not play well with each other to achieve that nice “integrated” experience.

When people will start to maintain META-plugins (depends and configures tons of other plugins for your stack) and they become mainstream, then it’ll be higher-order of “integratedness.”