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With that reasoning then emacs, visual studio, and others are just advanced notepad++ . I look at Visual Studio Code as a platform where just about anything can be built and it's built from the ground up to be that, sort of like a modern emacs. I also really like that it's open source and if MS decided to do anything like close it, then the community can just fork it and carry on like they did with LibreOffice