[nexuist]

> Just remember — integration doesn’t mean it has to be bad or slow (current Xcode can always be improved).

How is VS Code so popular, if its big brother Visual Studio can do everything it does and more?

Doesn't this signal that the market prefers lightweight IDEs over heavier ones?

Me personally, I would love to have a text editor on the left and the iOS simulator on the right and that's all you need to ship. Xcode Playgrounds attempted to execute this shift, but they still need much more attention until they can function as well as the regular workflow does (which is sad, 'cause the regular workflow sucks).

[jcelerier]

> How is VS Code so popular, if its big brother Visual Studio can do everything it does and more?

I only know extremely few people who'd use VS Code for C++, so "popular" is really ecosystem-dependent

[BearOso]

I use it. VS Code+clangd intellisense makes it easy to enumerate available classes, functions, and members, and because you don’t have to remember excessively verbose objects, writing self-documenting C++ is simple. Plus, you get automatic syntax checking as you go. That you can get these in a less-than-IDE nowadays is wonderful.

[plorkyeran]

Visual Studio does not do a superset of what VS Code does. There's the very obvious difference in that VS is Windows-only while VSC is not (there is a Visual Studio for Mac, but it's a third unrelated program and not a Mac version of Visual Studio). Even if you are running Windows, VSC has more functionality than VS for non-C/C++/.NET development.