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VS Code is modern ide. And I would really like to know which IDE takes an hour long install. Because I tried multiple on windows and they all required download, double click and that was it.

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Visual Studio (proper) has famously long installation times. VS2017 provided a significant installation time decrease but was still on the order of 30 minutes for my company-issued MBP.

In 2015, VS took me multiple hours to install and often minutes to open. The most unpleasant piece of software I have ever used. I hear it's better now.

Installing visual studio 2017 in a windows VM on a ryzen 1600 with an ssd and 16GB ddr4 and a fast internet connection took 3 hours, just did it a few days ago

Visual Studio, Jetbrains, if you happen not to have a fast internet connection and SSD can take a long time.

Installing Android Studio over a slow connection was a real PITA.

Having to wait an hour for a download/install to complete is completely different from requiring an hour of browsing stackoverflow to figure out why the CLI install instructions given aren't working on your device.

You're not exactly wrong, but are we not still comparing to "turn computer on, get BASIC prompt" (C64), or "turn computer on, type 'qbasic', hit enter"?

VS Code is a modern extensible programmers editor; with appropriate extensions, it approximates an IDE, but it's not an IDE like Visual Studio proper, Eclipse, etc.

Now, most actual IDEs don't take long to install either, but VS takes approximately forever.

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