VS Code Roadmap 2018
A free, powerful, open sourced editor and IDE constantly improving and growing - what's not to like? - I get that some don't like the electron-based thing/performance but it never bothered me (and I bought and use both Sublime 2 & 3) - guess it requires a degree of sensitivity that I'm not bothered with - sort of like people who claim they can't hear mp3 because they can only enjoy CD quality audio (not saying it's not true for them, just that luckily I enjoy both the same).The question I'm wondering about is what is Microsoft's end game with this? I'm comparing this to the history of Google Chrome that, when released, was similar in the sense that it was better than the alternatives: wickedly fast, open sourced, with no apparent strings attached. The business benefits to Google and market control from owning Chrome are obvious today and I'm trying to understand the long term view in VSCode - i.e how to you eventually create business value from a free editor? Premium features? Better integration with Microsoft's services? I wonder if there's a deeper vision -  I mean, as opposed to Chrome, VSCode does not know much about me personally, does not provide much data to further leverage Microsoft's services, and targets a much narrower audience to begin with. So, what's the business model behind it's development. I'm too much of a skeptic to believe it's just so developers have a warm fuzzy feeling associated with Microsoft...