I really don't understand the product strategy here. They're not like Microsoft, where sacrificing some Visual Studio sales can be justified as a way of attracting developers to the broader platform.
Their IDEs are cross-platform (though, admittedly, some platforms are more equal than others). VSCode was an effort to reach out to those developers and tell them, "Hey, even if you don't use Windows, even if you've never touched C#, we still have something to offer you." They didn't have anything to offer for developers who weren't already bought into the Windows/.Net stack. I understand why Microsoft came out with VSCode. If they did that, then why would anyone buy IntelliJ? >If they make it free, they could get a big chunk of the market, especially if they actually provide it with IntelliJ level of autocomplete, refactorings, multicursor support etc.
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