You are saying an IDE (of which there are many wayyy better) is as equally important as a technology which helped save thousands of lives? Do you really think VSCode is an equally big achievement as building space stations?
peoples lives are more important than a few hours of a programmers life getting used to vim (or any other non VSCode editor)
EDIT: Even millions, and thats only one of thousand technologies that improve our life (expectancy)
It baffles me how many people seem to have no idea how important software is.
Software runs the world. It runs your healthcare. It runs medical research. It runs space exploration. It runs every science megaproject. None of the engineering feats mentioned above would have been remotely possible without modern software.
And modern software is built with tools like VSCode. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that VSCode was and is involved in the development and maintenance of every single project listed above.
Software controls lives. Software saves lives. Software is every single bit as important as medicine. If all software suddenly stopped working, civilization would collapse and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people would die.
peoples lives are more important than a few hours of a programmers life getting used to vim (or any other non VSCode editor)
EDIT: Even millions, and thats only one of thousand technologies that improve our life (expectancy)