Are you guys aware that VS Code is free and cross platform..
(https://code.visualstudio.com/)
Yes
VS Code is a simple code editor, not an IDE. I do use it to open C# files for simple edits or to look at some code but I wouldn't do my development in it.
I've been testing it for Clojure development (as I can build the project from the command line) and it works ok but I found the inbuilt Command prompt a bit sluggish at times.