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If yout think about it, Jetbrains is more a counter part to Visual Studio then VSCode.

Vscode was more a advanced text editor to compete with atom. But I don`t see it losing it`s grip of the market anytime soon. Theres lot of tools that use vscode as base, that will be difficult for them to convert, like platformio IDE for example.

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To be fair the same could be said about Sublime Text, yet here we are.

If JetBrains releases a free tool that competes well with VSC on core features, I don’t see why the community wouldn’t adopt it.

VSC is far from perfection, it’s only a step up from ST in that it offers a few more tools by default.

Platformio does already have a quite good plugin for CLion.

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