bitwolf

forcing us to give away our new features for free to companies who don’t have to play by the same rules,

You mean the features you rip off from Samsung and Google each year?

And is also required to be sent to Banks and other organizations that are historically terrible at cybersecurity.

Looking at the IMDb listing, is this shedding Reagan in a good light?

Or is it a documentary on how he completely fucked up?

My understanding has always been:

• Text Editor: just writes text, no formatting (other than line endings)

• Code Editor: A family Text Editors that have additional capabilities such as syntax highlighting. And optionally a plugin or extension ecosystem. (VSCode, vim family, Emacs, even gedit )

• IDE: An application that includes Code Editor functionality, but also includes tools for a building on given tech stack. This comes out of the box, are a “part of” the application, are peers to the code editor, and cannot be removed, but can optionally be extended through plugins or extensions.