The point is MS was so, so, so late to the party of cross-platform developer tools. And then suddenly they won the game.

It really helps that VSCode isn't intrinsically tied to any other Microsoft products. It doesn't demand you use any specific platforms/languages/compilers, it doesn't demand you use GitHub, it runs on all major operating systems in basically the same way, it doesn't demand or even politely ask that you sign into a Microsoft account.

If it weren't for the name, you'd never know it was even a Microsoft product.

Ah, it makes total sense to me now. Thanks.

Indeed I heard directly from someone involved that the VS Code team understood the reputation of Visual Studio and wanted to call the product “Code” instead, and the compromise with marketing leadership was the the binary was called “code”.

Visual studio is good though. I wish I could it use it instead of code or Xcode

I use it 5 days a week, and unless you're talking about an ancient version from the 90s, I don't understand how you can say that.

Oracle literally own the trademark for both Java and JavaScript.