Is it me, or is that a Macintosh screenshot of the github page?
The software is cross-platform. I've only used it on Windows (I have emacs on OSX and Linux) but I have Mac friends who rave about how smooth it is there too.
Visual Studio Code is now open source
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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#132Welcome to the dark side. Feel the power of the Empire. Linux - I am your father! :-)
Well... Sinclair is the real father! xD
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#133Unsurprisingly, Visual Studio Code is mostly (62% at the moment) written in TypeScript!
And I'm pretty sure the JS in the repo is all build files and libraries - e.g. the TS service is a huge chunk of built JS. The product is effectively 100% TS.
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#134I 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.
Get over yourself. You don't like Microsoft, fine...
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#135What 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 Microsoft Connect 2015 :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/10/19/micr...
The same happens with other vendors when they have their own conventions to be fair.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, its misleading for sure. I think `Visual Studio Code` has like 1% of features of full blown Visual Studio?
You can't compare it like that. It's not a light version, it's an editor.
It is not just an editor. It has debugging capabilities and is extensible. Also runs on Mac and Linux and now open source. In some aspects it is much better than heavy loaded old VisualStudio.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#137What 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!
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#138Seems like an Atom fork. And the amount of people who are hardcore Linux user but have yet to find a better IDE than vsc on this thread.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#139As 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.
Long time Atom user here as well. When I first tried VS Code, the first thing that I noticed was how much better the performance was compared to Atom. From general snappiness of basic editing tasks to startup times to working with large files, VS Code simply outperformed Atom across the board according to my brief unscientific observations. At the time, I ended up sticking with Atom mainly because VS Code wasn't open…
This is spot on for me as well. I always wondered how VSC was so much faster given that they are both on top of Electron. In either case, this is all great news.
Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source
#140What 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..
There was a conference this morning. They announced a bunch of interesting newsworthy things within an hour.