I think that&#x27;s exactly what it is trying to be: a simple editor with some capabilities.<p>A lot of people expect a &quot;real IDE&quot; to have a lot of fancy, specific, semi-proprietary features, but what I believe VSC is providing great editing capabilities and offloading everything else to good task managers (and now, extensions). A lot that you can do in &quot;real IDEs&quot; (like building your project) can be handled by Gulp, Grunt, or other runners in a more or less independent way. I actually prefer it this way now, regardless of the IDE I use - that allows my projects to be independent of the IDE.<p>To me, where VSC shines is really in editing comfort, be it with the super fast typing response (really!), or with the Git integration, or with how it handles work space for opened files. It looks like it is <i>supposed</i> to be uncomplicated.