Apple doesn't give you a choice to not distribute on their app store on iOS/iPadOS. On Mac plenty of people still aren't distributing through the App Store, for

Apple doesn't give you a choice to not distribute on their app store on iOS/iPadOS. On Mac plenty of people still aren't distributing through the App Store, for now. I can't speak for anyone else but Windows does not "control" my text editor anymore than JetBrains or Apple could. I don't use any Azure services in any stack regularly so I can't comment. It's not like they're requiring I run CMake on Azure to use VS Code. But a lot of takes seem to miss the actual problems that MS's cloud offerings solve. Reproducible and stable dev environments are a massive productivity and time sink. I don't use their offerings but at least I get why they exist for different folks. What I'm more worried about are legions of developers who don't seem to know how to use command line tools. I hate to gatekeep but watching people fumble through GUIs and web menus just to run some code is infuriating to watch, and it seems to be becoming more acceptable.