>It makes me uneasy to accept VS Code as an "open" project in any wider meaning of the word when compelling features are legally locked to only work inside the family of Visual Studio products.
Yeah, so? I'll still use it. And those "compelling features" were only added in the last year or so. VSCode became immensily popular sereval years before they landed.
Plus, if somebody likes, they can create the same functionality as open source extensions upon the open source VSC core.
Microsoft also has to create something to differentiate themselves, right? Or should it all be just free foss stuff?
Yeah, so? I'll still use it. And those "compelling features" were only added in the last year or so. VSCode became immensily popular sereval years before they landed.
Plus, if somebody likes, they can create the same functionality as open source extensions upon the open source VSC core.
Microsoft also has to create something to differentiate themselves, right? Or should it all be just free foss stuff?