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I agree. And that’s basically what I was alluding to.

The FOSS languages were taking over and there was less reliance on the traditional IDEs that MS (amongst others) were building.

MS wanted to appear more FOSS friendly so released VSCode.

Oh okay maybe I misunderstood because you said low end FOSS editors. When I think “low end editor” I think something like notepad or gedit.

Yes, fair point. I also meant FOSS languages and how they didn’t require high end IDEs. So I definitely phrased my comment very poorly.

Sorry for the misunderstanding that caused. Though the upside was it did lead to your excellent comment adding the detail it did.