How does this compare to Brackets? http://brackets.io Anyone has experience?
Visual Studio Code is now open source
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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#92I 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…
I've been thinking for a while that what Go needs to become more widely used is an IDE with debugger. I'm numb (with a grin on my face) that it's coming from Microsoft.
I've read they're beta testing Go on Azure. Another good thing for sure.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cross-platform aspect is very nice IMO. Being able to feel at home on all 3 major platforms is great!
That requires proprietary libraries your users can't install. MS, Apple and Android have no incentive to make your programs easily portable. They've gone to extreme lengths to make it hard.
Just down the page is the opposite statement, "Who cares, VS Code is nothing more than a fancy text editor. Not and [sic] IDE." They missed the point, but you are just factually wrong.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
VSCode is extensible now -- they are called extensions. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/#VSCode
Interesting! I see there's a LaTeX highlighter but it seems there's no compiling add-on :(
You probably don't need a dedicated compiling add-on VS Code has a very simple, but capable, generic task running system. If you hit Ctrl+Shift+B ("Build" shortcut) it will launch and if it is the first time you've run it in that folder it will scaffold for you a sample JSON config file with a bunch of examples of how to configure it (and more examples are online).
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#95Don't a lot of advanced folks avoid reliance on "visual paint" style programming?
Do folks like Linus and John Carmack crank up Eclipse and use wizards?
[ EDIT: I've obviously offended some Visual programming fans. I apologize. ]
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#96VSC has revolutionized how I code on Linux. Thank you, Microsoft!
The shilling is strong with this one.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#97Don't a lot of advanced folks avoid reliance on "visual paint" style programming? Do folks like Linus and John Carmack crank up Eclipse and use wizards? [ EDIT: I've obviously offended some Visual programming fans. I apologize. ]
That's not what Visual Studio is about.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#98VSC has revolutionized how I code on Linux. Thank you, Microsoft!
The shilling is strong with this one.
That's an argument that was good for upvotes on Slashdot, but not on HN.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shill&sort=byDat...
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#99VSC is possibly the new Emacs and JavaScript is the new Lisp.
Eh, could be worse.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's other features, but the biggest for me is if you're writing TypeScript or C# you get first-class visual debugging support. Also the live Markdown Preview (cmd-shift-v) is pretty awesome.
You can use Split Editor and Markdown Preview to have live preview while editing.
The most recent release of VS Code includes a new `Markdown: Open Preview to the Side` command (cmd+k, v) which does this with a single command.