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What is the difference between an IDE and an editor? When this supports C++, be prepared for Visual Studio to disappear.

Also, it's based on Electron but doesn't have anything to do with Atom.

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An Integrated Development Environment as the name suggests integrates all of the tools in a developer's environment: editor, compiler, debugger, source control, servers. An editor is just one part of that.

vscode is intended to be a compiler/debugger/etc. It can already debug node/mono apps. Checkout dnx, .NET Core, and Roslyn. Soon, Visual Studio will not be needed for pure c# applications, except traditional MSBuild/csprojs and C++.

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