Aside from being boomer tech, I’d say that both are text editors.

Oh man. I miss Delphi days.

I haven’t. What’s that and does it come close to neovim?

VS is not VSCode, not even comparable

I’m more partial to Zed now. I like to type in high FPS.

I’d consider vscode to still be a text editor, although I do really like using it for TypeScript. For me, VS still takes the crown because it’s just so good at debugging and evaluating C#. It’s hard for anyone to compete since Microsoft largely owns (yes, I know the .NET Foundation is responsible for .NET) the whole ecosystem.

VS Code is a code editor, not an IDE.

IntelliJ is a blight on humanity.

I was so excited for Rider, especially since I do like some of the features of other JetBrains IDE’s, but I’ve found it just too unreliable when it comes to build support, and despite years of dominance in tooling from the ReSharper days VS intellisense is just much nicer. It’s very close though, and IMO Rider is nicer to use for C# than IntelliJ or PyCharm are for their respective languages.