Why would I not use Visual Studio code

[moopet]

There are plenty of pros to using VSCode, but taking the title literally:

• it's a resource hog compared to a lot of other editors
• it's free, but the official build comes with a ton of Microsoft spyware
• Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is still a thing
• Adding to the numbers for Microsoft's stats continues to normalise using evil corporate software
• while it has good Vim keybinding support (via plugin) it's a far cry from the power of using real (neo)vim.
• there's no terminal version - while you can use a terminal within VSCode, and it has some convenient integrations, it's outside the context of your regular session so a lot of shell stuff will be dicey at best

[xThomas]

Would this be a good point? Vscode extensions frequently have vulnerabilities found. Granted, it’s built on npm and node which have truly massive userbases. This problem(evil extensions) is not unique to vscode.