From Microsoft's point of view, it makes sense to merge Visual code with Github, as both are their properties. And it walks into the realm of repl.it and darkla

From Microsoft's point of view, it makes sense to merge Visual code with Github, as both are their properties. And it walks into the realm of repl.it and darklang, who are demonstrating people want to shorten the repl loop. But I'm still wary of Microsoft, and remember them from the 90's. Completely dominant and ruthless. Even though it's new people now. I can see them embracing open source development workflow, branching to eat up everything that has to do with your development workflow. Once Microsoft wins the ecosystem of open source developer workflow is when they'll start to leverage it, using it as lead gen for the lucrative cloud/dev ops services. They're playing a long game to beat Amazon AWS, and to beat off any new startups with shorter repls.