There's no discernible difference between functionality given by a plugin and it being baked in. VSC has so many plugins offered for download at one's convenience it's becoming difficult to keep it simply as a dumb editor.
Over in C++ land, VSC is doing a much better job than the last version of Eclipse CDT I tried.
I think we're seeing the proper value of a decent IDE like VS, when one examines the latest debacle to befall PyPI. Clearly there's a lot of devs out there who lack the wisdom of practising safe hex when they go fetch God knows what from who knows where and just run it. Something like VS plus NuGet does at least walk you through the whole thing and tell you "you're about to do something dodgy, are you sure?".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
