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hasperdi on Oct 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit

Not sure VS Code has a marketing budget either. I think the difference is the appeal, VS Code as a product is more appealing to many people.

fartcannon on Oct 9, 2021 [–]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/506534/microsoft-sales-m...

According to that, Microsoft's budget was 20 billion. I bet quite a bit of that goes towards convincing developers to lock into their ecosystem

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