Comment by dangus
1 day ago
Claude code seems like the obvious choice for someone using Vim but even in the context of someone using a graphical IDE like VSCode I keep hearing that Claude is “better” but I just can’t fathom how that can be the case.
Even if the prompting and looping logic is better, the direct integration with the graphical system along with the integrated terminal is a huge benefit, and with graphical IDEs the setup and learning curve is minimal.
You can run Claude Code in the terminal window of VS Code, and it has IDE integration so you can see diffs inline, etc. It's not fully integrated like Cursor but you get a lot of the benefits of the IDE in that way.