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Nikola Stojaković • Edited

I moved from VS Code to WebStorm because I don't have to worry about setup and it has many features which I find very useful for which I would need to add bunch of extensions and spend whole day configuring. Also, it showed as much better solution for bigger projects, especially for refactoring. I don't mind spending a bit more money for good software.

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Eugene Pisotsky

Of course, there are some cool things in IDEA (I've been using it for 8+ years, so I know about it), but for example "full-fledged" IDE still doesn't support remote development (youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-...) and I can't event open different projects in the same window (switching between windows is very annoying). I'm not trying to say now, that one is better than the other, I'm saying that both have its own pros and cons, it's not fair to say that one is full-fledged and another one isn't only because it doesn't support features you need.

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Nikola Stojaković • Edited

It is, because VS Code is not an IDE. Visual Studio is an IDE and IDEA is IDE, but VS Code is code editor. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but there is a difference between those two. I'm yet to see an IDE which can debug C# like VS.

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Eugene Pisotsky

What is the different between code editor and IDE? "catching unused promises"?

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Nikola Stojaković

Have you ever used Visual Studio?

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Eugene Pisotsky

No, but I've used IDEA. You claim IDEA is an IDE and VSCode is not, and I'm trying to understand what's there so special that categorizes them like that