My intuition is that VScode and Visual Studio are likely to remain significantly different products for the foreseeable future. VScode is an Electron app. Visual Studio is more a 'native' app with deeper integration into the host operating system.
Xamarin Studio was built to provide a Visual Studio like experience regarding platform integration and to align with the architecture of Visual Studio. VScode does not appear to have those as the primary goals. It was already available for OSX.
To me, this is further evidence that Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin was in hopes of accelerating cross platform product development along a roadmap that tends to be more open source friendly. It may turn out that Xamarin Studio provides the core platform for Visual Studio at some time in the future or at least that the code bases merge to a greater degree over time.
Xamarin Studio was built to provide a Visual Studio like experience regarding platform integration and to align with the architecture of Visual Studio. VScode does not appear to have those as the primary goals. It was already available for OSX.
To me, this is further evidence that Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin was in hopes of accelerating cross platform product development along a roadmap that tends to be more open source friendly. It may turn out that Xamarin Studio provides the core platform for Visual Studio at some time in the future or at least that the code bases merge to a greater degree over time.