It’s not really possible to compete with huge companies like Microsoft “dumping” free code on the market: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_poli

It’s not really possible to compete with huge companies like Microsoft “dumping” free code on the market: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) You can be better, more user focused, have better privacy, but it’s tough to beat good enough and free. Microsoft wants to own the developer ecosystem and is willing to dump billions in free software and services to annihilate any third party shops. They are pretty close to owning the entire stack of core services and tooling other than the languages themselves. The sad thing is that in their push to keep up Jetbrains is dropping a major thing that made them appealing vs VSCode: a lack of spying and telemetry.