Because someone has to fund it?

Microsoft is content with funding it, the price is your telemetry (for now).

For high quality development tools I use true FOSS; or I pay for my tools to avoid not knowing where the value is being extracted.

> Microsoft is content with funding it, the price is your telemetry (for now).

The price of VSCode is halo effect for Azure products

	▲	bsder 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		The price of VSCode is the lockin on the proprietary extensions. Specifically: the remote code extension, the C/C++ extension and the Python extension.

benbristow 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I thought with VS Code the price is that it entices you into using Azure, where the enterprise big bucks are made.