Hot Take: Traditional IDEs Are Dead in 2026: Use VS Code 1.90 and Copilot 2026.1

In Q1 2026, 72% of senior backend engineers surveyed by Stack Overflow migrated from traditional IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio) to VS Code 1.90 paired with Copilot 2026.1, cutting daily context switching by 68% and build times by 42% on aver...