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0 pointsbhhaskin7y ago0 comments

Right, but so does Atom. Atom is a text editor, not an IDE.

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As popular classic saying goes; If you have to create a project to save a file then it’s an IDE.

The line is pretty blurry these days. If you install enough extensions, it's very difficult to differentiate between Atom/VS Code and a "real" IDE.

Even vim can be made to function as an IDE.

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0 pointsbhhaskin7y ago0 comments

Right, but so does Atom. Atom is a text editor, not an IDE.

As popular classic saying goes; If you have to create a project to save a file then it’s an IDE.

The line is pretty blurry these days. If you install enough extensions, it's very difficult to differentiate between Atom/VS Code and a "real" IDE.

Even vim can be made to function as an IDE.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse