Comment by dlisboa

> It has captured a staggering percentage of software development

In hindsight it's obvious why: it was the only free editor that has a product mindset and a product team behind. Microsoft put heavy hitters on it, some of their best engineers, treated it as some companies treat their core products.

Other IDEs/editors are mostly open source with no real direction and resources, or are proprietary expensive software.

It's unfortunate but to compete with VS Code you need a lot.