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> VSCode is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time.

> VSCode is the greatest productivity tool in the history of software engineering

VSCode just seems like an IDE to me. Here's some things that are either better feats of engineering or better for software productivity:

- moving from line-based editing to screen-based editing

- any mainstream database

- any mainstream browser

- compilers

- linters

- any mainstream OS

- continuous integration

- headphones

- big monitors

- stack overflow

- any graphics driver

- any mainstream 3D platform (Unity, Unreal)

- version control (edit: added, how could I have left it out??)

I'm team Vim so I'm obviously salty, but even so I think you're going a little overboard here haha. I don't even think this about Vim!



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