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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 Scuds »

shurcooL wrote: post #117
shankun wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Go extension is also available as an open source project, at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go . We've integrated a number of tools built by the Go community, including the Delve debugger, and we are contributing to these projects. We plan on adding other languages as well, including Python - but if you're interested in building extensions for other languages, we'd like to hear from you.

Awesome! Last time I tried VSC it had no gofmt-on-save functionality which I consider mandatory. Now that it does have that and much more, I'm very much looking forward to trying it again.

It's being auto updated on a monthly cadence - not too different from Chrome. Some releases are big, some are small. I wouldn't write off a project that has a team that's set up to do that.

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Post by oblio »

tosseraccount wrote: post #95

Don'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. ]

You do know that the name is mostly an artifact from a previous age and the GUI designer in VS is like 5% of a very powerful IDE, right?

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Post by nostrademons »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #190
avivo wrote: post #182

FYI, it seems that Visual Studio sends a lot of data about your usage back to Microsoft. "This includes information about how you use the products and services, such as the features you use, the web pages you visit, and the search terms you enter." (among other things such as name & device identifiers https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/dn948229 ) You can disable this...but it requires you to re-disable it on every pr…

This has been on Debian, Netbeans, IntelliJ, and other editors / software / OS since as far back as I can remember. Not sure if it's standard, so long as it's optional I don't mind it.

Yeah, I first noticed this on desktop software in the early 2000s. Knowing how people are using your products is pretty critical for software companies to improve.

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Post by krisdol »

hekul wrote: post #100
lcnmrn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't see how that's different from atom.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by solipsism »

bigtones wrote: post #166
hasenj wrote: post #65

The name of the "VS Code" product makes the title a little mis-leading. I thought the code for "Visual Studio" was open sourced. Turns out it's just this stripped down editor called "Visual Studio Code".

Microsoft have never been good at product naming. Just today they renamed 'Visual Studio Online' to 'Visual Studio Team Services' because people thought it was an online version of Visual Studio. They need a VP of Product Names, someone that actually cares what their products are called. '.Net' for example is a stupid name because it is practically un-googleable.

Recently MS announced that the package manager they're building for Windows, until then code-named OneGet, had been christened.... PackageManagement. sigh

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Post by MaxKK »

mahyarm wrote: post #187
kup0 wrote: post #173

I wasn't sure what to expect from VSC, especially going into it I was worried that it would just be a MS-branded, bloated version of an already-slow Atom. My expectations were completely wrong, though. VSC is not bloated or slow. It's well-made. There aren't really any negative MS-flavored conventions as far as I can tell. This isn't MS Office (which I guess has its place but has gone off the deep end, IMHO). It look…

Bloat and jankyness seems to be a function of project age. This is a relatively greenfield project, so it's pretty nice for now. MS Office is ancient as far as software projects go. The only things that are older at this point is UNIX, Oracle bank/govt mainframes.

You checked the latest Office 2015? I think it improved quite a bit, at least on OSX.

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Post by saosebastiao »

arlevi wrote: post #79

I'm praying that a vim mode will be released for VS Code soon. Visual Studio's VsVim is excellent, and a VSC plugin of equal capabilities would convince me to adopt VS Code for typescript development. Fingers crossed!

+1 for VsVim. The vim-ish plugin for eclipse is a joke in comparison.
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