It's stabile now. Just forget the alphas and 1.X ever existed. If you really want to get a hang of it, don't use Visual Studio. user VS Code, and the CLI tools:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/?tabs=net...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/?tabs=net...
Do you think they will drop VS and adopt VS Code as the recommended solution? Since it's locked to Windows, bloated and there's no 64 bits version
But more importantly VS and VS Code are two different approaches- IDE vs TextEditor. The vast majority people would say C#, as a compiled language, is best in an IDE. Either way, I'm pretty confident in predicting that there is no way Visual Studio gets "dropped."
They have moved more and more features to run into separate child processes to prevent the memory use requirements for the main VS process. VS 2017 uses a lot more memory than 2013 (the previous one I used). My 8GB machine gets slowdowns every now and due to SQL Server getting swapped out.