• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Notepad++ was gaining some traction so Microsoft figured they nip that in the bud with a half-hearted attempt?

    Microsoft’s competitor to Notepad++ is VS Code.

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      6 months ago

      Notepad++ is a text editor while VS Code is an IDE. They are intended for different use cases.

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          6 months ago

          What would be missing from VS Code or VS Codium that an IDE needs?

          I’m an ex Visual Studio user, now writing all my code in VS Codium. I organize my project tree in VS Codium, I build from it and, like a Visual Studio user, I press F5 to debug, set breakpoints and inspect variables.

          And that’s just the default install using the vanilla C/C++ extension it ships with, not some complicated setup that takes any time to get working.