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Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Post by antod »

bitwize wrote: post #157
laumars wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusing counter argument, but the pendant in me wants to point out that the DOS-name was inherited from the SCP product MS bought[1] rather than a naming convention MS created [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

And the pedant in me wishes to assert that Windows, strictly, follows the rule; it was originally sold as a windowing system for DOS, and the generic use of the word "window" to mean a rectangular section of the screen set aside for program output was well established.

Ahhh back when the acronym WIMP used to mean something :)

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Post by abhinavk »

sparkling wrote: post #148
smortaz wrote: post #142

We've been asked this by a few people, so I figured this is a good place to respond: Will PTVS (Python Tools for Visual Studio) come to VSCode? The answer is YES! This will be a major focus next year. Expect full intellisense, debugging, profiling, pkg mgmt, unit test, virtual env, multiple interpreter, Jupyter, etc. support. Disc: Python/R/Jupyter team lead https://www.visualstudio.com/features/python-vs

As a Python-lover: this is awesome. There is a need for something with good Python support in-between a full blown PyCharm and plain VIM

You may use Sublime Text with Anaconda plugin.

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Post by stevebmark »

Visual Studio Code does not yet support JSX, nor properly supports ES6, so it's currently unusable to modern Javascript devs. Which is a shame, because it has a lot of potential! I'll be watching this closely to see when it becomes usable in my workflow.

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Post by marpstar »

stevebmark wrote: post #224

Visual Studio Code does not yet support JSX, nor properly supports ES6, so it's currently unusable to modern Javascript devs. Which is a shame, because it has a lot of potential! I'll be watching this closely to see when it becomes usable in my workflow.

I haven't tried in plain JavaScript, but I know you can if you use TypeScript. This has been working for me for awhile now.

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Post by duaneb »

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…

I'm not sure about the branding angle. For the longest time, MS was its own worst enemy brand-wise. They appear to be doing the necessary changes to win about people who like good tools, though. I'm not complaining.

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Post by mikestew »

shankun wrote: post #110
mikestew wrote: post #82

No 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.

Hmm, odd; I pulled up a random Java source file and it was a plain, single color. Not a biggie worth digging into because I don't see using VSC much in it's current state (20-some year vi/vim user here), and I (thankfully ) don't do much with Java. Thanks for hanging out and listening to our issues, though. :-)

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Post by marpstar »

micah_chatt wrote: post #19

I 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…

Micah! I sat next to you on the bus that morning on the way to campus.

I knew after we left that day that Microsoft was on the right track, but with all the announcements today they've really shown that they're committed to cross platform tools.

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Post by ozim »

mkaziz wrote: post #2

VSC has revolutionized how I code on Linux. Thank you, Microsoft!

Second that, I was writing load testing scripts in Python on Ubuntu. I was like Vim + git in console and then I thought, since I am .NET dev, could I install VSC on Ubuntu and I could and it was awesome.
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