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If they had made it open source, cross-platform (like vs code), with sane telemetry options (unlike vs code) I would have gave it a go. I don't get why they though anything else had a chance in the current market.

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What are VS Code’s insane telemetry options?

The VS code you download is not Open Source, it has a special Microsoft license and includes close source Microsoft Telemetry ( which could be considered as spyware) which you cannot opt-out completely.

See https://code.visualstudio.com/license

If you want a clean VS Code with MIT license and no spyware you have to build it yourself or use VS Codium : https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/README.md

This pretty much the same idea as Chrome vs Chromium

Build it yourself with build tools from MS... which have telemetry :/

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