Wouldn't it just be Visual Studio then? We would get updates once a year instead of once a month. There are less C++ devs than JS devs. The size of the community that could contribute would shrink also.
For what it's worth, the Visual Studio team now releases minor updates roughly every six weeks (including bug fixes and new features), and service updates almost weekly [1]. They also rely quite heavily on user feature requests [2].
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs...
[2] https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...
No, but it would "just be" an open source, MS backed, version of Sublime or TextMate. The concept of Visual Studio is different.
>We would get updates once a year instead of once a month.
The language the core is in is irrelevant as to whenever we would see updates. That's a concern of the release process.
>There are less C++ devs than JS devs.
Not really important, as most of the contributors are MS guys anyway. In fact a single person has made Sublime Text, an editor that offers most of what VSCode offers, with 1/100 the budget and manpower. If only it was Open Source too, or had a few more devs...