I think it helps that Erich Gamma worked on Eclipse before. Lessons Learnt I would call that. Also, treating VS Code as a Code Editor is naive from JetBrains. V

I think it helps that Erich Gamma worked on Eclipse before. Lessons Learnt I would call that. Also, treating VS Code as a Code Editor is naive from JetBrains. Visual Studio (the big one) is a technology dead end. It has a dozen tech stacks in it (COM, .NET, C++, ...) and faces challenges (macOS, Linux, Web, lightweightness, ...) that it can never overcome without a rewrite of most of it. Surprise: VS Code. I mean that is my theory ... and I think a lot of people share that theory.