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Would you be able to comment on how Microsoft is allowing these sorts of projects considering I imagine it would cut into Visual Studio (paid version) revenue? I've almost completely switched over to VSCode from Vim+Ctags and it's also converted a few of my Linux using friends over as well. Essentially, how in the world does this fund your team? Not that I'm complaining, but it really does seem like a monumental effort.

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Within Visual Studio, our team culture is very focused on solving customer pain points, and ensuring we can address the broadest set of developers possible. Over time, we hope that some of those developers consider using other Microsoft products (such as Azure), assuming we do a good job of providing a delightful and integrated experience. Additionally, there’s plenty of value within the Visual Studio SKUs, which allows us to decide which features are available in each. We decided to make Live Share available across all VS SKUs and VS Code, because we believed that real-time collaboration was something that is applicable to the vast majority of developers.

Send my thanks to whoever was responsible for making CodeLens gradually available in more SKUs. I think in 2015 it was Enterprise only, then Pro and above only in 2017 and in 2019 it's in the Community edition. Super useful feature that I notice VS Code has been inspired by also.

I'll make sure to pass this feedback on to the right folks!

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