How free editors such as Atom, Brackets, VS Code are monetized?

Question

Besides huge engineering efforts, they also do lots of marketing - so what's the point?

jerriep · Accepted Answer

Microsoft uses VS Code to create awareness of the MS brand and ultimately get people on to Azure.

sciencewolf · Answer

VSCode is a Microsoft product: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode - their core developers work at Microsoft

omosubi · Answer

how big is the userbase of Atom? I remember there being a lot of hype when it came out but I never hear about it anymore

tsjq · Answer

How about pycharm?