From what I've gathered so far, IDEs are suppose to be like crack. If you get them addicted to your stuff, you'll be able to convert them to paying customers f

From what I've gathered so far, IDEs are suppose to be like crack. If you get them addicted to your stuff, you'll be able to convert them to paying customers for other things down the road. Considering the resources that GitHub and Microsoft are throwing at atom and vscode, I do buy into this premise a bit. I'm as baffled as you are, but I'm definitely not their target audience, as I'm content with vim and a terminal. If somebody can point me to some research papers on this, I would love to learn more about this phenomenon.