I wouldn't chalk a lack of familiarity with Visual Studio down to snobbery and elitism. I'd chalk it down to Visual Studio only running on one operating system

I wouldn't chalk a lack of familiarity with Visual Studio down to snobbery and elitism. I'd chalk it down to Visual Studio only running on one operating system, not being particularly useful for developing apps that aren't targeted at that platform, and having a very high price tag. (The last two have changed, but only recently.)