Why they are doing this? I mean why they are open sourceing? They have open sourced .NET and for example they have support for Cordova.
Visual Studio Code is now open source
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ma…
Jetbrains IDEs are highly regarded and run very well under Linux.
Highly regarded? Absolutely. Run very well under Linux? I dunno about that part. I run PHPStorm on a workstation with 16GB of RAM and it still huffs and puffs on occasion when doing stuff like indexing files or running their Intellisense-alike. It's fine, I can live with it, but it's not exactly "wow, this thing really flies!" performance.
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#123Is it me, or is that a Macintosh screenshot of the github page?
Not only that, but the demo video they show on their webpage is recorded on OSX.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Carmack now uses Dr Racket.
Link?
I'm sure it's not the only language Carmack is using but...
https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577877590070...
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#125What I find quite odd is Microsoft rarely seems to show up on front page of HN, then all of a sudden in concert all of the top links on front page are Microsoft related.
It's not that they're not doing good things to help fix their culture, but I find it almost annoying. It seems almost impossible to me that all this promotion is not coming from them directly..
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#126Welcome to the dark side. Feel the power of the Empire. Linux - I am your father! :-)
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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#127after the update I can no longer format xml files using alt+shift+f
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#128I 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 already use VS Code for Python scripts. Even without the lint feature I enjoy the experience. Although before that I was primarily using Notepad++ for Python. Good to know it's on the horizon, though.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#129What I find quite odd is Microsoft rarely seems to show up on front page of HN, then all of a sudden in concert all of the top links on front page are Microsoft related. It's not that they're not doing good things to help fix their culture, but I find it almost annoying. It seems almost impossible to me that all this promotion is not coming from them directly..
It’s not uncommon for big tech companies to unload a bunch of news at once. Look how much Apple shows up during WWDC.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#130What I find quite odd is Microsoft rarely seems to show up on front page of HN, then all of a sudden in concert all of the top links on front page are Microsoft related. It's not that they're not doing good things to help fix their culture, but I find it almost annoying. It seems almost impossible to me that all this promotion is not coming from them directly..
Maybe, or maybe they had product announcements. Happens with Apple all the time: Release a new iPhone, iOS, some sort of consumer app, and a cloud-based service.
If you're gonna strike the iron, do it when it's hot!