Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century?

Re:Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century? by throwaway8879 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @06:14AM (#18398412)

>But as a product, both of them appear to be quite similar

Not at all. Not even in the same league. Emacs is the Emacs of the 21st century. Vim is a text-editor and never claimed to be an IDE, so I don't understand the "lying to yourself" bit.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century? by gsaga on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @06:54AM (#18398551)

Well some people claim that vim can do whatever an IDE can, which is just not true. That comment was directed towards those people.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Visual Studio Code the Emacs of 21st century? by hatsubai on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:40AM (#18399380)

I believe they're referring to the fact that vim + the OS itself (generally some flavor of *nix) can do whatever an IDE can do. From a terminal, one can call vim, gdb, valgrind, navigate file trees, utilize grep for searching codebases for a string, and so on.

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