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Comment by ChuckNorris89 | Hacker News Reader

Don't know why you're being downvoted. People pay for IDEs all the time since it benefits their productivity but seem to have a problem when Microsoft release free proprietary tools.

Maybe someone can explain what the issue is because I don't see it.

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Note that people didn't have any (new) problem with free proprietary edition of Visual Studio. VS Code is different because it's aimed at displacing free tools and marketed with misleading "open source" messages.

Because it's Microsoft so people here are always looking for problems. I never seen anyone mentioning that XCode isn't open source. Or Sublime Text for that matter.

That's because those never were open source. Microsoft presented an open source editor, and an open source python language server, and an open source python checker, and then wants to replace those with closed source versions that you're not allowed to run anywhere else anymore.

And I'm sure you have other open source python language servers and open source python checkers for other open source editors. Nobody is locking you in here. Everyone is free to move to something else to write python.

That completely misses the point here... it's not about having a facility, it's about a change in direction that people don't like.

It's because microsoft started to open source a lot of stuff and started a direction in which it sells services instead of simply licenses, and then bought the Python BDFL and cut off some projects that fall in line with the expectations of their offerings in the open source space so far.

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