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Off topic but I'll be that guy: I am continually blown away by just how good VSCode is and how it very much overcame two huge obstacles: being an election app, and its poisonous name.


Poisonous name? Are you referring to Visual Studio? That's widely considered as one of the best IDEs around.


Yes. At the same time it's hated by many anti-MS folks, especially in the Linux/OS X crowd.


I don’t know any anti-MS folks anymore. Those who were that generally stopped hating MS when MS stopped being a threat to the existence of their preferred platform, or to open source in general.


If people hate it just because they're "anti-MS" instead of based on product qualities then it's not the name that's poisonous.


If people choose to hate it for fanboy reasons that's their loss.




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