VS is itself short for Visual Studio, the first IDE I ever used, and the first MS product I liked. So VS Code Studio means Visual Studio Code Studio.
Why Visual? Because 25 years ago MS was pushing Visual C++, where you would drag and drop visual components together and then figure out where to put the C++ code to make them work.
There’s no list, and it was made by the democrats, and some of the people on it don’t deserve to be on it, but Bill Clinton is on it too, so that’s why I won’t release the list that doesn’t exist.