[jonathanoliver]

vim is a breath of fresh air compared to VS, which you've mentioned is a resource hog.

A lot of the oppression comes from the mindset in various organizations that "we must use Microsoft" (because it's safe, because they provide support, etc. etc.) and thus looking outside is actively discouraged at an organizational level. While I can't say that Microsoft directly encourages this thinking, in the past they've certainly not discouraged it.

I would have loved to use async/await when they existed, but they didn't at the time. AND I needed it to run on Mono which didn't support those language capabilities yet. Things are improving dramatically, but I've moved on to greener pastures.