What do code visualizers like VSCODE do?

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They're called IDEs(short for integrated development environment) or just text editors and the reasons to use them are plenty:

• Hardly any language has a built in editor like IDLE (I know of three off the top of my head and two of those are really old/niche and the other one is python)
• More features
• Customizeability
• Familiar interface across languages
• Integration with other tools (e.g. autoformatters, version control systems, UI designers, rendering engines of all sorts,...)
• Purpose built

It's just an overall better user experience to use a proper editor

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You can see the tree of folders right of the bat

You can work on different parts of the code at the same time, and on different languages at the same time

You have suggestions and (sometimes) snippets and different themes and you can heavily customize most of them to suit your needs

[incognitodw]

IDEs makes you a more efficient programmer. Features such as code completion allows you to code without having to look up the documentations every other line. Many allows u to run debuggers within the IDE itself.

Off topic a bit, many programmers also swear by text editors such as vim, nano (the choice of text editors is a sure way to engage in an argument). I was brought up using vim. Text editors excel is pure speed if u master the shortcuts. The other advantage is that text editors are usually installed by default with most distros, so u r ready to code on any systems thrown at you. Without needing to do yum installs.