> I'm too much of a skeptic to believe it's just so developers have a warm fuzzy feeling associated with Microsoft... Given that the development is very-very c

> I'm too much of a skeptic to believe it's just so developers have a warm fuzzy feeling associated with Microsoft... Given that the development is very-very cheap for Microsoft, even this single thing could make worthwhile for MS to continue the project. VS code appears on HN regularly, it connects to a demographic that's very different from MS's core dev audience.