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by xor_null 2973 days ago
VS has alot of stuff which is missing in Code, so Code has of course new shiny features every release. I mean just the XAML development is missing (as far as i know). That was also the point why they released VS Community, to allow Independent developers to develop for there UWP Platform. Also MS uses VS in several other Products, like sql management studio (they releases a cross platform tool lately), or Blender. Both are just VS with a bunch of other Plugin/Projekt Templates. I also know some Companys who uses VS Shell - a striped down Visual Studio - for there own internal software.

Also, if i'm not wrong, VSCode is electron based app. If VSCode will have the same amount of fearures as VS, i think they will have Performance and Memory issues. Just a few weeks ago they published a blog post, how they improved the performance of the editor for large files (fun fact, Atom had the same problem and they solved it by implementing a native Textbuffer, no JS). So adding new features to VSCode will bring new challenges to performance and memory consumption. And don't forget, there are people out there complaining about why the slack app needs so much memory....

So all in all, yes maybe Vscode will replace VS but this is a really long road to go.