Eclipse is a herd of cattle sellotaped together in the shape of a giant cow.

They're not text editors.

I think most people use vscode exactly like they would use IntelliJ; it's hard for me to justify that vscode is an editor but intellij isn't.

I don't have everything setup in vscode. I mostly just use it for syntax highlighting and generally use a JetBrains IDE for programming (code navigation works much better imo)

I think you can go either way with vscode similar to the whole vi vs neovim with tons of plugins

Yes. Though they don't pretend to be text editors.

Whales

IntelliJ and VS are like two different models of US aircraft carrier

Eclipse is like that one Russian aircraft carrier.

> If VS Code is an elephant than what are VS, IntelliJ, Eclipse? Skyscrapers? Aircraft carriers?

I was quite surprised, when I recently used VS for a small C project, at just how snappy it was for that project compared to VS Code for the same project.

I then compared it to VS Code for a larger C# project and it still compared very favourably in terms of responsiveness and speed.

I think a lot of people using VS Code are comparing small projects in VS Code to large projects in VS and concluding that it's VS that is the problem.