I'm not looking for a RAD where you have a visual interface editor and then use a more or less traditional text-based programming language to handle logic.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

Much of this was adapted from Visual Studio technology. VS Code proper is built using the Electron shell, Node.js, TypeScript, and the Language Server protocol, and is updated on a monthly basis.