The Untold Story of VS Code

A mini movie on VS Code -
Visual Studio Code is more than just a code editor; it's a game changer.
This is the story of what happens when one of the world's leading tech companies decides to build its own code editor.
This story is one of the most fascinating stories in the world of software development, a story of how one of the biggest enemies of open-source projects made a open-sourced software for free. A company once hated by Developers now loved by about 14 million developers.
But everything is not as it seems, you would discover motives, conspiracies and the strategy used to counter such conspiracies and at the very end you'd get to decide, is it a blessing in disguise or is it a curse in disguise.
Welcome to the story of Visual Studio Code.

00:00 Introduction
00:29 Chapter 1: Genesis
02:40 Chapter 2: Unique Discovery
03:51 Chapter 3: VS code versus Major code editors
05:26 Chapter 4: The Scandal
6:48 Chapter 5: The Open source Gamble
8:00 Chapter 6: Good or bad move?
8:45 Chapter 7: Controversy
9:49 Chapter 8: Worthy Competitor?
10:41 Chapter 9: The legacy
11:42 Chapter 10: The future
12:16 Chapter 11: Conclusion

Research References -

[CodeSource]

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[AlexanderMorou]

Please remove the intermission-styled chapter slides. They have to be killing your retention. It takes the momentum your video builds and dashes it.

[stephan]

Sorry, but you are incorrect on so many fronts ... e.g. it seems you completely forgot about IntelliJ's IDEs which had git integration before VS Code became popular (I used them). VS Code is surely a low-impact choice for many developers, but it wasn't really first, or fastest, in much of anything.

[esra_erimez]

"VSCode" is an editor, not an IDE like "Visual Studio". You need a lot of extensions to make it work like an IDE.

[scottfranco]

Its really impressive that they did this with typescript. Its like building the Eiffel tower out of toothpicks.

[theawesomedas]

I love VS code a lot. Seriously that's an amazing tool created.

[thebuggerdev]

NetBeans introduced built-in git support in 2011, Visual Studio in 2013, VS Code production version (not beta) was published in 2015, so it wasn't first

[MegaFarciarz]

Seemles integration with git as an ground breaking feature?! Visual studio beeing used mostly internally by Microsoft?! Nice animation, but maybe do some more research next time, 'cose most of your technical facts are just plain wrong and its immediately apparent to anyone who's been into programming for more than 5 minutes

[waynehawkins]

Never used vscode, but use and own the full visual studio and always using the pre-release so I'm on the edge of the latest. As a Blazor web developer, I find it a super powerful IDE that speeds up development. Thank you Microsoft for giving us these powerful tools and the framework to build on.

[THETHPHANTOM]

there is a little contradiction in the video. he says the editor was opensource from the beginning and yet Microsoft turned it open source to put concerned developers at ease. so which is it? was it open source from the beginning or did it become open source later? cant be both.

[xcoder]

VScode was not lighter, faster, or more versatile than Atom. What kind of marketing BS is that? Like most Microsoft products, it's just a cheap copy of another product and that other product was Atom. Most of the ideas and concepts and even the UI were copied from Atom, except that Atom was even more hackable and therefore much more versatile. Atom also supported debugging in the editor, and it supported extensions, but unlike VScode's extensions, Atom's extensions could actually change everything about the editor. And why is VScode faster? Atom and VScode are both based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and both run on the same type of backend. The only reason Atom doesn't exist anymore is because Atom was the editor of GitHub, Microsoft bought GitHub, and then they killed Atom. Buying competitors just to kill their products is another tactic that Microsoft has been doing for over three decades now.

[pauladriaanse]

I'm fairly certain the yearly stackoverflow survey showed VSCode is becoming the #1 IDE out there, not 'one of', but full blown #1.
Might have changed, and its not a foolproof source, but definitely interesting.
(Sidenote: the satisfaction rate for vscode was also highest among editors)

[kahnfatman]

Developers worldwide must hold on tight and stay with VIM or NEOVIM or EMACS. Those are our true strongholds.

[celestialnubian]

I never considered VS Code because it was MS but fearing the death of my beloved Brackets, I hopped aboard the VS Code train and found the ride to be nice.

[CodeSource]

Thank you so much for your support! In this video, my goal was to bring a new perspective for developers, with a touch of added drama. It’s meant to be more of a mini-movie than a tech tutorial, purely for entertainment. I hope you enjoy it, and I’m excited to keep improving with future videos. – Deven

[matthewkhouzam]

There is another alternative, Eclipse Theia. I suggest checking it out. It's truly FOSS and aims to have a FOSS ecosystem, which is extra hard/interesting in a world of everything as a service and AI buddies.

[Nik.leonard]

There is one piece of the puzzle missing in this video, Webmatrix. Webmatrix was Microsoft's first (to the best of my knowledge) attempt to make a lightweight, web focused code editor with some IDE capabilities, that was discontinued in favor of VS Code, but was very similar to VS Code.

[joaoluis]

Using pc since the 90 here with ms and mac and Linux ... can't think about that if microsoft never existed the tech world would be more advanced than today.

[abdullahzafar]

IDEally, I would LOVE head over heels a code editor from Mozilla

[bexplosion]

Too many small chapters. Why is Copilot not mentioned?