Visual Studio Code is free, cross platform, super fast and lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and OS X. Since a lot of developers use windows as their development environment, but there are also lots of developers using Linux and Mac. So, Visual studio code is for them. Though, you can also use it on windows.
Over the years, Microsoft has changed. They stopped to pretend Linux never existed and, more importantly, they realized selling a service is more profitable than selling a product.
They developed VS Code probably because of the same reason they bought GitHub: to attract the community of developers and provide them with tools for publishing on Azure.
They care no more whether their customers write applications for Windows or Linux as long as they deploy them on Microsoft’s cloud. Microsoft lags behind AWS a big deal, so it tries the best to bite a larger share.
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