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Visual Studio-like IDEs are a dead end. There is little revenue opportunity in them and a huge downside in losing relevance in the overall developer mindshare.

How many of us would be using a Microsoft IDE/text editor if it were not for VS Code?




The millions that use and will continue to use Visual Studio?


Visual Studio is great for developing on Windows software that'll run on Windows or XBox.

Feels like a dead end to me. The ecosystem has colossal inertia, but it's easy to see the lack of future.


So, you propose to give up on Visual Studio because in 20 or so years maybe Windows and XBox won’t exist? Or?...

Also, speaking of IDEs. There are also Jetbrains’ IDEs and XCode. Can’t speak for XCode, but IDEA offers capabilities that Emacs can’t even begin to approach.


I have already given up Visual Studio because none of my work is intended to run only on Windows and Xbox.


Practically everyone that does C++ or C# development on Windows?




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