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by digitaltrees 7 days ago
I am not trying to be pedantic, I am really just curious because I’ve never heard someone saying something like vscode isn’t an IDE. I am mostly curious because those of us that write languages like Ruby or python with no compiler that typically debug in the terminal or repl feel like we have an IDE and refer to it as such.

I also think your characterization about hobby/production fall short. My fastAPI and rails codebases anre definitely not a hobby.

Thanks for clarifying though. Interesting to hear your perspective.

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> I also think your characterization about hobby/production fall short. My fastAPI and rails codebases anre definitely not a hobby.

That's not what I said?

What I said the was the line between hobby/production is use of the tools themselves. Doesn't matter if you use them via a terminal, VSCode extension, or an external app.

Line between editor/IDE is the former requires downloading extensions but the latter bundles them in the final application.