One day I hope someone builds a VS Code distribution that comes as a 1-step setup as an IDE for "all" languages. So long as you have docker (or snap or whatever is favorable then) you can install a plugin and get LSPs, linters, code building, etc setup for "all" languages. Also autocomplete for things like proto/thrift files would be cool (by finding .proto and .thift files, running code gen, and indexing that in the language server).
Not sure why that would be useful to anyone. One of the benefits of vscode is how well it is architected, enabling users to customize the experience with nearly zero effort. This is primarily enabled via a rich extensions API.
It’s pretty obvious but to be clear, included support by default for all languages would degrade performance with little value to most users, since most users work only with a handful of languages.
Personally, I love that I can setup my default extensions that run across all projects/repos, then when I want to work in a language or use a tool not in my typical workflow, I can configure this with a few clicks or by updating a JSON file.
I'm not a vscode user, I just tried it once, but isn't it how it currently works? You open some file in a new language and then it istantly recommends you to install the relevant plugins with a click.
One can dream...