No, aside from not being literally Japanophiles specifically, that does in fact sound about right, unironically. Likewise Emacs.
But VSCode (/JetBrains/etc) is more like a Internet-of-Things version of one of those meat-and-cheese-slicing machines they use in delis: needlessly oversized, optimised for producing stuff in large quantities with no attention to detail, and cannot be used correctly anyway because you can never be sure the next software update won't brick it or cause it up phone home all your information to the malware developer you got it from, because the S in IoT is for security.
Notepad, of course, is a rusty butter knife with suspicious-looking stains on it, while ed is a sharp piece of flint (with different suspicious-looking stains).
(Does
$ echo ' printf("Hello, World!\n");' >> hello.c
count as tearing up raw ingredients with your teeth? This metaphore kind of got away from me.)
But VSCode (/JetBrains/etc) is more like a Internet-of-Things version of one of those meat-and-cheese-slicing machines they use in delis: needlessly oversized, optimised for producing stuff in large quantities with no attention to detail, and cannot be used correctly anyway because you can never be sure the next software update won't brick it or cause it up phone home all your information to the malware developer you got it from, because the S in IoT is for security.
Notepad, of course, is a rusty butter knife with suspicious-looking stains on it, while ed is a sharp piece of flint (with different suspicious-looking stains).
(Does
count as tearing up raw ingredients with your teeth? This metaphore kind of got away from me.)