Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode

In what way is this secret? It’s in the View section and not really hidden imo.

For those who don't know, IntelliJ IDEA also has this. (I'm not affiliated with them at all, but I do love their IDEs.)

Personally, I tried it once and was too weirded out — I've lived with the side panels for so long that it feels wrong without them there, minimized and providing a nice little frame for my thoughts.

Not displaying line numbers makes it a non-starter for me.

I don’t get it. Why would you use this instead of Emacs? Still such poor use of screen real estate. In Emacs I’m in “zen mode” all the time…