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Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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I hope this move paves the way so that VSCode will now have the Code Collapse feature which has been requested tremendously. http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studi...

Agreed, that's about the only feature I REALLY miss from other editors.. though with extension support in this release, I'm sure it'll come soon.

Same goes for reformat selected text (html/xml, etc)

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jetbrains IDEs are highly regarded and run very well under Linux.

I love Jetbrains products, but under Linux they are nowhere near as stable as VS is on Windows, or even Jetbrains apps on Windows. They're slower, and some features don't quite work right all the time.

What? Stop lying and spreading false rumors. IntelliJ Idea and PyCharm are rock stable on Linux, they are not slower and if something isn't working then please let Jetbrains know.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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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

A question: If I'm not mistaken, PTVS is basically a whole bunch of Visual Studio plugins, presumably not written in JavaScript. Since VS Code is a while different program made in a different language and a different UI framework, does this simply mean there will be a new bunch of py/r/jupy plugins for VS Code, accidentally made by the same team? Or does VS Code have more VS-compatible integration options than I knew…

My lay perspective is that it is apparently the other way around: It certainly appears that VS is increasingly "VS Code compatible". A lot of the extensions in the VS gallery have silently been working in more TS/JS code and even some of the "built-in" functionality relies on TS/JS code. (The Typescript compiler itself, of course, has always been self-hosted in VS. The DOM Explorer which can be used in webpage debugging and Cordova mobile remote debugging uses a bunch of Edge Dev Tools code much of which is also shared with VS Code as well. [Which is more reason the VS Code open source announcement is rather wild.])

It definitely would not surprise me if that's an intentional direction in VS and many more extensions and components will start to be built (or rewritten) for VS Code first as TS/JS and then "ported" to run in VS "proper". Of course, I certainly don't know anything of the matter for certain, this is just lay observation of trends I'm watching with interest in VS.

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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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. ]

VSCode has no visual editor. Carmack has used Visual Studio for a long time.

2 references from the top of google results. There are many more out there.

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/21187594150

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/126638/Following_Acquisit...

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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I 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.

> Operating System for short. Brilliant idea. Why not go all the way and call it OS. We could then have OS 10 from MS and OS X from Apple!

What about IOS being used both by Apple and Cisco?

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Pretty cool! I've been using it a bit on the days where I have to do stuff on Windows, mostly for hacking on C++ code and playing with GL shaders (the code is cross-platform with CMake, so I don't really need Visual Studio). I've had a few ideas about little things to add to it, and having it open source makes that a possibility!

What are your thoughts on VS Code against other IDE for C/C++ (ie eclipse, code blocks)

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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The only thing I wish VS Code had is "Compiling" out of the box. I know you guys want to make an amazing experience for each language, but one of my favorite editors is Geany because no matter the language or platform when I hit build / compile it usually just works. Hoping now that it's gone open source we will see minor changes like compiling / building cross platform at least. Other than that it's a great editor,…

Have you looked at VS Code's Task Running [1] support yet? It takes a small bit of config work up front and I've not used Geany so I'm not sure if it directly compares, but I've certainly found it to be useful.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/tasks

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They acutally demoed Go debugging in the Connect conference keynote today [1], together with the open-source announcement. It has been implemented as part of an extension written by someone inside of Microsoft, if I remember correctly (support for extensions was also announced). [1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event...

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.

I would be pretty very interested in Ruby support. One reason I think it would be especially valuable for Ruby is that a lot of introductory programming happens in Ruby and currently the defacto suggestion is sublime. As great as sublime is, installing packages can be challenging. Having debugger, linting, and auto complete support out of the box would be huge.

I'm curious to hear how you're supporting these features. I personally don't know much about VC.

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