[theandrewbailey]

What? Isn't Visual Studio a paid product (aside from the Community edition)? VS Code is free, so if anything, they would keep VS Code as the shitty product.

[babypuncher]

Visual Studio for Mac was also free. It also wasn't developed in house, it's just Xamarin Studio with a new name.

I think they are killing it for two reasons:

* Cross-platform .NET development on VS Code has gotten very good.

* JetBrains Rider is even better, especially for professionals, and becoming very hard to compete with.

[LoganDark]

> if anything, they would keep VS Code as the shitty product.

Getting VS Code as popular as it is today was the strategy. For that, it needed to not be shitty.

The enshittification only began after they took over the market