It's interesting he values company management so much. What's stopping Microsoft from one day abandoning VS Code, like Atom was abandoned? Is Microsoft even making any money from it?
It’s a play for dev mindshare where they get to control the platform and have access to devs using their software, they have no intentions of making money from it directly only to maximize its appeal & marketshare. It’s a cross-platform dev environment they can easily deliver extensions to connect to their commercial products.
There’s no point in them continuing to invest in fragmenting the dev community by developing 2 competing platforms now that they own GitHub so I’m not expecting to see any increased investments in Atom.
I didn't know atom was abandoned. That's sad. Do you mind linking to a release that states that officially?
For me, plain vim is a great thing. My computer is hot enough without another electron app, and for that reason I've never tried VSCode (ium) -- I feel there is a vast amount I still have left to learn in vim, and although I've been using it for >10 years, I'm far from an advanced user. It just works, is fast, and matches my brain.
Microsoft also has a very, very long way to win back my headspace. I take it this new editor -- which I will give a quick go to -- doesn't come with telemetry and nonfree core code, for example.