Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
by dmitryminkovsky on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:49AM
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> but I seriously doubt that they'd be willing to internally maintain the absolute truckload of code that would ensue from getting to feature parity with Jetbrains on languages like Java or Python
Why would you doubt this? Microsoft is huge compared to JetBrains and revenue opportunities of code editors have been clearly demonstrated since the 80s. Microsoft sold how many billions of dollars of Visual Studio in the 90s? Plus the red flags are already popping up: Microsoft is already not open sourcing Python language tooling [0].
Why would you doubt this? Microsoft is huge compared to JetBrains and revenue opportunities of code editors have been clearly demonstrated since the 80s. Microsoft sold how many billions of dollars of Visual Studio in the 90s? Plus the red flags are already popping up: Microsoft is already not open sourcing Python language tooling [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719045