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Because someone has to fund it?

Microsoft is content with funding it, the price is your telemetry (for now).

For high quality development tools I use true FOSS; or I pay for my tools to avoid not knowing where the value is being extracted.

>>dijit+(OP)
I thought with VS Code the price is that it entices you into using Azure, where the enterprise big bucks are made.

>>dijit+(OP)
> Microsoft is content with funding it, the price is your telemetry (for now).

The price of VSCode is halo effect for Azure products

>>not_a_+y4
The price of VSCode is the lockin on the proprietary extensions.

Specifically: the remote code extension, the C/C++ extension and the Python extension.