> Am I alone in not jumping on the Visual Studio [Code]

These are at least 3 different questions:

1) Why should I use VS Code in general?

2) Why should I use VS Code online? (the articles topic)

3) Why should I use VS?

The answers might turn out completely different.

Personally, I have for my main languages (C++ & Python) full IDE's (VS & Wing IDE). For quick Python scripts, VSCode is considered an option that I use rather often.

In what VSCode shines is - as also other commenters mentioned - his plugin eco-sytem. This has true swiss-knife traits. So I'm using it for many secondary and ad-hoc technologies:

- CMake files

- Julia

- GPS files

- JS files

- LaTeX

- JSON

- XML

- CSS

- Markdown (vanilla, asciidoc, ReST)

- remote editing