Met with a couple of folks from the SQL Server team at RubyConf. They really just blended in - they weren't even wearing Microsoft shirts or anything. The seemed genuinely concerned about the cross-platform story, and went so far as recommending a "competing" product for SQL Server tooling on OSX.
Visual Studio Code is now open source
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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#102was expecting msft open sourced the compiler, linker, msbuild, etc
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#103I liked Visual Studio when I used it for a university mandated project years ago. If Microsoft had open sourced this a decade ago, I might actually be using it today.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm struggling to understand how you are a hard core Linux user yet you've never heard of a good Linux IDE. KDevelop? Eclipse? Netbeans? KomodoIDE? Anything from JetBrains? And I don't even know what might be available on the Gnome side. Then there are all the great editors that sit right on the verge of being IDEs once you configure - Kate, KomodoEdit, Sublime Text and so many more. Personally the look at VS Code ma…
I've tried Eclipse, Netbeans, Komodo IDE, Geany, and found them either too clunky and unusable on my older machine, or too barebones with little intellisense. I did start using Sublime Text once, but didn't stick it out long enough to get used to it. I haven't tried the JetBrains products, to be fair.
Definitely worth a try... On two recent jobs, I used my regular WebStorm IDE but was also required to use VS for certain tasks. I much preferred the Jetbrains IDE, and I don't think it's just down to familiarity as I would seek out equivalent workflows in VS.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#105Earlier 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.
I'm struggling to understand how you are a hard core Linux user yet you've never heard of a good Linux IDE. KDevelop? Eclipse? Netbeans? KomodoIDE? Anything from JetBrains? And I don't even know what might be available on the Gnome side. Then there are all the great editors that sit right on the verge of being IDEs once you configure - Kate, KomodoEdit, Sublime Text and so many more. Personally the look at VS Code ma…
Honestly none of those are very good. The UX, speed, stability, etc is lacking. Eclipse is ok if you're only doing Java (and was good 10 years ago, but the UX is irrelevant today), but sucks for everything else. IntelliJ is the only one do better support other languages but it too is quite clunky, and I use it regularly.
Sublime is not on the verge of becoming an IDE, nor any of those other ones. There are way too many missing features and constructors for this to happen, and I also regularly use it and prefer it as my text editor.
I haven't used any of the VS products extensively but I know they have a good reputation. I hope Microsoft could make it amazing for all languages and all platforms. Sounds good to me! Please just make a reasonable replacement for Xcode! (Jetbrains is terrible)
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#106was expecting msft open sourced the compiler, linker, msbuild, etc
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#107Don'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. ]
Carmack now uses Dr Racket.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#108No modal/vim mode? (The Googles indicate "no".) I want to love you, Visual Studio Code, but that's a deal-breaker. Looks like the plug-in system is up, so maybe it'll come down the road. Though it's probably my color-blind eyes, but I couldn't find a stock dark theme that worked for me (first time I've had that out-of-the-box problem). So between not being able to read the text on the screen that well, and an input m…
There absolutely is Java syntax highlighting, I just tried it out of the box.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#109Nice move MS. Too bad it ~10 years too late
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#110No modal/vim mode? (The Googles indicate "no".) I want to love you, Visual Studio Code, but that's a deal-breaker. Looks like the plug-in system is up, so maybe it'll come down the road. Though it's probably my color-blind eyes, but I couldn't find a stock dark theme that worked for me (first time I've had that out-of-the-box problem). So between not being able to read the text on the screen that well, and an input m…
Thanks. VIM mode is high on our roadmap.
We do actually have Java syntax highlighting today, though we don't have statement completion and other richer features for it yet.