[badminton1]

Many people doing AI/ML right now are not using Windows. By asking them to move to Visual Studio you are implicitly asking them to move to Windows. Only by doing that you are making it extremely difficult to adopt such technology.

[contextfree]

vscode runs on Windows, Mac and Linux

[unmole]

VS and vscode are two entirely different projects.

[contextfree]

The product we're talking about is Visual Studio Code Tools for AI; "full" Visual Studio IDE isn't even mentioned or shown in the announcement article

[dotancohen]

The previous post seems to have been a bit context free. The application in question actually is based on vscode: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ai-tools/

[namlem]

It doesn't matter. MS has Linux VMs on Azure. Businesses love Azure, and MS is greatly investing in providing hardware for ML.