I’m trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s what most IDEs are. VS Code doesn’t have any native integrations. Everything is provided by plugins. The default plugins that ship with VS Code can be disabled, and you’ll have just a powerful text editor.

    (To do this, go to Extensions tab, click the filter icon, select “Built-in”, and go down the list to disable all of them. Or just build a version with no built-in plugins.)

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        1 year ago

        In that case every IDE is “just a text editor” because basically every IDE is built around modularity in this same way. This is just nitpicking over what is preinstalled.

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          1 year ago

          IDEs are designed to support a software development workload. A text editor is designed to edit text files.

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      Ah, so Code is the same as Vim if… I go out of my way to either disable things on one or install things on the other.

      Or… Or… Code is an IDE (that you can strip down) and Vim is a text editor (that you can strip up).

      We don’t stop calling a computer one just because it can still boot without most of its modules. The default presentation matters.