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by mountainriver 2138 days ago
what? Yes it is, vscode was built to be powered by extensions and they work great.

I've been using vscode for the last 5 years for all kinds of languages and have never though to myself "I wish I had an IDE"

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You can also do all your work in a raw text editor, yet you prefer VS Code. Same distinction for an actual IDE.

The Rust and C++ extensions are very far from what an IDE offers. They only handle basic debugging and code completion/browsing. With a few more extensions you can a bit better, but again, you are doing the job that an IDE is supposed to solve for you.

I guess I'll take Rust is my no good "editor" over c++ in a "proper IDE", don't think thats gonna sell most people