[therealunreal]

It does have another big architectural weakness: no detachable windows (see issue #10121). Not impossible to fix but quite hard.

And while the embedded dev tools is very cool, especially for the headless browser, it only brings in even more windows in the main VS Code window. Notice how dev tools typically take the largest part of the screen. In many workflows it is beneficial to have the dev tools on a second or third monitor so it doesn't obscure the code.

[runawaybottle]

I’d like to see some innovation on this front from VSCode or any of the major editors. The developer ui experience can easily be overlooked since we’re used to dealing with all kinds of hoops to do most of our work.

[GordonS]

JetBrains Rider has tool panes that you can dock like "traditional" IDE tool panes, or break out into separate windows. Presumably other IntelliJ-based IDEs have the same capability.

I really like this feature when working with multiple monitors - I can keep the primary monitor "clean", with just the editor and solution explorer, and have the test explorer and test runner split vertically in a secondary portrait monitor monitor, and debug/console output in my laptop screen.