It has “MIT license. Telemetry is disabled.”, i.e. for free software purists, noting added, like new features (should be same memory requirements), I believe. It supports the same extensions, such as Julia’s, so feel free to use it.
Copilot AI (yes, it’s an AI tool to help with e.g. programming, also Canvas from OpenAI, and Cursor.AI etc.) might work there too (is seemingly simply an extension), but I’m not sure:
But Copilot is a “free trial”, seemingly proprietary, so if you’re a purist you wouldn’t used it, and if not, might as well go with VS Code.
I meant in same sense, I though context clear, its REPL is now improved (also has e.g. an experimental JIT compiler, off by default) and more see its release notes.