Comment by digitaltrees
17 days ago
Totally disagree. I find people still using cursor or other IDE centric flows want to review the code and be more interactive. Claude Code and Codex push agent autonomy and speed. Sorry but they go off the rails too much.
I am pissed off by people calling Cursor an IDE.
VSCode it is based on is text editor.
AI features are great but it is not IDE.
This. I hate VSCode as an IDE and is the reason why I have not used Cursor. I wish Jetbrains actually had some brains to build a better coding agent inside their IDEs (which I think are one of the best out there), but for now Im stuck with codex/cc + Jetbrains IDE
What do you define as an IDE then? I think something with an integrated terminal, file system and git UI is the essential set for most development.
IDE ships it's own compiler, debugger, usually some sort of container/container orchestrator and database tool. I.e. the things that separate hobby projects from production ones. VSCode has these things but they're extensions, not build into the editor
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I guess you never got to debug multithreaded applications in Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider.
Debugging and code navigation are much better in proper IDE. In text editors you grep/search with regex.