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Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by tomp »

frik wrote: post #16

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.

Why is refactoring code from JavaScript to TypeScript a bad thing? Short of using a better, but non-web-compatible language, I don't really see a better option.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#32

Post by saiya-jin »

mkaziz wrote: post #21
pil4rin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

corporate shill /s

I'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.

eclipse doesn't suit your needs?

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

#33

Post by _yy »

mkaziz wrote: post #21
pil4rin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

corporate shill /s

I'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.

IntelliJ! (and PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.)

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by softawre »

tomp wrote: post #31
frik wrote: post #16

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.

Why is refactoring code from JavaScript to TypeScript a bad thing? Short of using a better, but non-web-compatible language, I don't really see a better option.

Right. It's a good thing IMO. Even for pure Javascript, VSCode has some of the best code-completion I've seen (outside of Visual Studio).

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by robotnoises »

JL2010 wrote: post #15

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.

I use it purely for its Git integration. Nothing fancy, just implemented very well.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by ethomson »

frik wrote: post #16

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.

Monaco was not an acquisition. Microsoft hired Erich Gamma, who built a team in Switzerland to develop Monaco (and later Visual Studio Code).

Visual Studio Code is not a fork of Visual Studio Online. Visual Studio Online (now Visual Studio Team Services) is not a text editor, it's an ALM system.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by ethbro »

saiya-jin wrote: post #32
mkaziz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.

eclipse doesn't suit your needs?

(Just chiming in my $.02) Eclipse, I guess because of the plug-in architecture, always felt a bit "left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" to me.

Sure, it works, but I wouldn't say it's something I like to use.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by [deleted] »

mkaziz wrote: post #21
pil4rin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

corporate shill /s

I'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.

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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by laumars »

saiya-jin wrote: post #32
mkaziz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.

eclipse doesn't suit your needs?

Eclipse is a Visual Studio competitor, not Visual Studio Code. The former is the classic full blown IDE (like the Borland IDE's of old), the latter is a more a feature rich text editor (competitors being Sublime Text, Kate, Notepad++, Brackets and Atom - to name only a small few popular examples)
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