I actually do not use it, not out of any kind of moral stance but it just runs slow for me.

Have you had a merge conflict yet? A breeze to manage with GH Desktop + VSC

It's quite common knowledge, Microsoft does horrible operating systems but great dev tools. Visual Studio (not vscode) was amazing to develop software.

And thanks god we don't have to deal with Eclipse anymore.

The real question would be why the open source community cannot create a better dev tool that's not outmatched by a glorified text editor.

Y’all use VSCode??? Whatever happened to good ol’ Sublime Text?

Run three flavours of Linux at home and love Microsoft. Why does everything have to be in opposition?

If you really dont like a company and its products you must vote with your wallet or usage in this case. Its that simple. The reason why people that dislike M$ still use vscode and/or windows is simply they actually dont care that much and mostly make noise. I vote with my wallet and have a full jetbrains subscription, I use most their IDE's everyday and its been great. Anyone really depending on income through coding must acquire the best tools available if they are reasonably priced so be it.

For all their faults, Microsoft are rather good at languages and the tooling around them.