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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit by fartcannon on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:46AM (#28799899)
Like most F/OSS, Vim doesn't have a marketing budget and VSCode does.
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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit by hasperdi on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:53PM (#28804569)
Not sure VS Code has a marketing budget either. I think the difference is the appeal, VS Code as a product is more appealing to many people.
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Re:Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit by fartcannon on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:53PM (#28806606)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/506534/microsoft-sales-m...

According to that, Microsoft's budget was 20 billion. I bet quite a bit of that goes towards convincing developers to lock into their ecosystem

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