Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Visual Studio Code is now open source

code.visualstudio.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 403 posts

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#11

Post by ihsw »

tapoxi wrote: post #6

As an Atom user that's only dabbled with VS Code when it was announced, what are its advantages? Last time I tried Code it seemed like a fork of Atom with Microsoft branding.

You can set breakpoints for your NodeJS code, be it TypeScript or vanilla JavaScript.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#12

Post by tonyarkles »

Pretty cool! I've been using it a bit on the days where I have to do stuff on Windows, mostly for hacking on C++ code and playing with GL shaders (the code is cross-platform with CMake, so I don't really need Visual Studio).

I've had a few ideas about little things to add to it, and having it open source makes that a possibility!

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#13

Post by stoolpigeon »

I really hate how MS names things. Microsoft SQL Server, or as most people call it SQL Server. I read the title to this post as Visual Studio code is now open-source - but it's not. The product some genius called Visual Studio Code has been opened.

I'm really surprised Windows isn't called Microsoft Operating System, or Operating System for short.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#14

Post by guiomie »

I've been using VSC for a few months now for side projects and I really like it. I've ditched notpad++ for it without any regrets. I'm not a fan of using my full blown VS2015 either for nodejs/web projects. Glad to see support for nodejs debugging this will be useful.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#15

Post by JL2010 »

Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-text alternative instead of an IDE (was it always positioned to be just an editor?) Always great to see more options though.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#16

Post by frik »

The good: The Monaco editor component that Microsoft paid a lot of money is now under MIT license. (bought the company from Switzerland)

The bad: they refactored it to TypeScript (from Javascript)

The ugly: the sole existence of TypeScript and some ES6 syntax is the monaco editor project and Visual Studio Online and Visual Studio Code is a fork of it.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#19

Post by micah_chatt »

I actually visited the VS Code team at Microsoft a few weeks ago for a product-research day where they brought in developers from small teams from around the US. I had heard that this was the plan, and I'm excited to see that it has since happened. They showed some compelling features (still not-yet released) that I think would bring this well-beyond a simple Atom competitor. Once they bring the debugging and linting features to other languages (Python, Ruby, Go), I think this won't just be seen in the same category as Atom.
Post reply on HN