No! Don't give up. It does run like an IDE in many ways. It has intellisense, error checking, a debugger with watch windows etc. I now work in VS Code much how I did in full .NET. Here's what I would do just to get started and learn: 1) Download or create a project in regular Visual Studio using the template you want to use. 2) Copy that file to your Linux machine 3) Open VS Code and then open the directory where that project is VS Code will analyze the type of project you are opening, suggest the plugins you need etc. You can now learn the VS Code terminal and other small things that are key to working in the non VS environment. They are simple and powerful once learned. Down the road when you want to create new projects you can use some scaffolding depending on the project you want to create. For Angular I use NPM. For webapi you can use this: Create a Web API with ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio Code | Microsoft Docs[^] The biggest differences are that it doesn't rely on proj/sln files and that you do these things via command prompt instead of graphical interfaces. Once you get a few commands down it is fantastic and powerful. I started with VS Code for my Angular development but now am using it for my Web API dev too. After spending 15 years in the .NET IDE and VB6 before that it is nice to be able to do everything I need in a more lightweight and cross-platform environment!