Comment by Klonoar
2 years ago
Your particular individual experience is not representative of the overall reach that Microsoft has, which is what OP is pointing out.
GitHub is the defacto "point" of software these days, with most devs jumping to that before anything else.
VSCode is the highest ranked editor from the StackOverflow 2023 survey, with (IIRC) something akin to 70%.
Azure is the icing on the cake, because now you have an entire generation of developers building on GitHub, from VSCode, and deploying onto Microsoft infrastructure.
2023 isn't live yet, but 74% of respondents used VSCode in 2022[0].
That said, the numbers are hard to compare because they allow selecting multiple choices and they split the JetBrains products up, while VSCode is considered as one tool.
If you add together all the JetBrains products they reach 94%. I expect there's a ton of overlap that brings that number back down, but it's enough to make me suspect that VSCode's lead isn't as high as the numbers in the survey make it look.
[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-popula...
you can do one better: imagine those developers writing typescript frontends for asp.net backends!
One which is using npm for package management and the other using nuget. And guess who owns both?
I typo'd 2023, so thanks for that correction!