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Dave Cridland

VSCode is pretty minimal out of the box, but with effort, you can get it to do a lot - and with a very modern, slick UI.

JetBrains provides a suite of IDEs that work exceptionally well out of the box, and cover a range of languages. Plugins are very easy to add as well, and you can with very little effort at all end up with a great full-stack development environment.

I have plenty of friends who would rather put in the effort with VSCode, or Atom, or whatever. And it works for them. Me, I prefer to just install the JetBrains kit and get coding. I advise giving both a serious go, especially playing with the refactoring capability in the JetBrains IDEs, and explore polyglot programming as well - I've jumped into all sorts of languages at short notice just by being able to find the right JetBrains IDE or plugin for IntelliJ.