[bigyikes]

This misses the point. A trillion dollars goes a lot further when the software is cheaper.

[dmitriid]

But VSCode isn't cheaper. They had to pour millions of dollars and countless man hours into it. And none of those translated into any meaningful improvements of the platform.

[anilakar]

It isn't cheap wrt hardware requirements either. My 2.5 year old work laptop becomes unbelievably sluggish if I have to keep multiple Electron apps open.