I have really apprehensive and mixed feelings about this... on the one hand part of me feels that it&#x27;s about time, and maybe the right time to bring Xamarin&#x27;s tooling into the fold... their cross platform tooling for VS has been great, and .Net via mono has seen some integration of MS&#x27;s new .Net core codebase where appropriate.<p>The paranoid in me acknowledges that outside of MS Office, they&#x27;ve pretty much never kept a non-windows client project alive for more than two major releases.  I wouldn&#x27;t mind seeing the VS Code codebase become closer to what VS proper could have been, and seeing more cross platform support in that regard.  I do like what they&#x27;ve been working on in Azure services and integration, just hoping the teams don&#x27;t come in just to die in a year or two (Managed JScript, IronRuby, IronPython for starters).<p>I&#x27;m honestly hoping for the best, but that hope is definitely tempered.