Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
Even developers are taken for a ride. Just like WhatsApp and Chrome, it all comes down to ripple effects of &quot;If others didn&#x27;t use it, I can&#x27;t&quot;. I have given a number of examples of this stubborn sticky monopoly below.<p>Every newbie while learning to code: scared of reviews on internet like &quot;I couldn&#x27;t get help with this editor online or with colleagues and I can&#x27;t risk being stuck on this project so I switched to VS Code&quot;<p>Every newbie while interviewing: impress interviewers even by a little chance that they use the &quot;industry standard&quot; tool to code.<p>Every experienced developer, even on this HN post, says &quot;It doesn&#x27;t have excellent support like VS CODE, in remote development, centralized marketplace, etc.&quot;<p>I have pieced together and my conclusion comes from the observation below. There is a reason enterprise, rather than startup world use M$ products. The power and money to fight for fairness.<p>Their C#&#x2F;.NET compiler is open source and excellently designed but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like closed source]<p>VSCODE is open source but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like telemetry and extensions where the real power lies, being closed source]<p>Phone and App market but to with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ it is going to be based on android like Edge on Chromium]<p>VStudio is best IDE but to with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like  telemetry + closed source extensions + Heavy + slow + whatnot!]<p>MAUI is Wowza! tool with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like repackage old Xamarin in new branding]<p>OneNote is the best note taking app ever but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ like lock in using obscure format and closed source]<p>Every company they acquire but with a secret tunnel to nefarious practices to use when needed[ Embraaace Exteeend Extin...]