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Jonathan Carter • Edited

Live Share is actually fully supported in VS, and in fact, it now ships in-the-box with VS 2019. My team also builds IntelliCode, which is not only supported in VS (and VS Code), but has a larger feature set in VS for C# (e.g. being able to train custom models on your codebases). That said, the investment in Visual Studio is significant, and it’s by far the premier IDE for C#/C++ development.

While VS Code supports many languages and app types, it’s primary focus is JavaScript/TypeScript development (web, Node.js), and so it provides a very comprehensive experience for those scenarios. It also has a very vibrant ecosystem of extension authors, which help contribute to the overall experience as well.

So both VS and VS Code have their own strengths, but ultimately compliment each other. Neither one really impacts the other, since they’re optimized for different scenarios, and in many cases, different developer preferences (e.g. do you prefer a fully-featured IDE or an editor + CLI tools and your choice of extensions?) If there are thing things in particular you’d like to see in VS, I’d love to hear that feedback, and I can make sure it’s passed on to the right folks.