The success of VS Code -- along with the evolution of the open source, cross-platform .NET Core -- provides the signature theme of 2018 in the Microsoft developer ecosystem.

On Windows, Visual Studio Code’s base install footprint is about 376 MB; for Theia IDE, it’s 658 MB. This leads to another major difference between Theia IDE and VS Code.

Developer Rick Strahl, tired of the cumbersome process of converting his many Visual Studio IDE code snippets into formats that can be used in the Visual Studio Code editor and the JetBrains Rider IDE ...