Great initiative. I am using VS code more and more and tools like eclipse less and less. I think however, that this is a big limitation: "Recognizes only projects with maven build files on the directory hierarchy.".

Would love to be able to open any java file in code - even if ANT or some other build tool is used. It would be OK to remove some functionality if there is no recognised project for the java file but simple things like syntax highlighting and completion of calls into standard java packages should continue to work.