What is the market position of Visual Studio?

Question

visual studio

Hello everyone, the question is more for the flame, but your opinion was interesting.
My main development language is Java. On the Internet, if you ask which IDE to use ?, then the first answer will be Intelij IDEA, for lovers of OpenSource Eclipse.
However, this is not the first time I have encountered that when building a project, I need to install VS, because only there are the necessary components to build the project. Do not go to the library website, namely !install!.
At a cursory glance, VS is a hefty combine, which, among other things, can make programs in JAVA.
And in principle, one gets the feeling that the VS product itself has the status of some kind of software development pillar.
Therefore, the question is what kind of animal is this? In addition to the IDE functionality, what other mystical meaning does it carry?

Answer 1

Just a handy program.
Tons of languages ​​and technologies. In principle, having put it, you can not get out of its limits.
Even out of the box, if you hang plugins, then everything is fine.
By the way, what kind of projects are these?
In theory, Vusual studio build tools are enough (for python and other things)
Or net core sdk (for net core projects)