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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by jongalloway2 »

maxxxxx wrote: post #95

What's so exciting about this? As far as I can tell it's just a pretty basic editor. Is there anything innovative in it?

The elevator pitch page is a bit hidden: http://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/whyvscode

Excerpt: "For serious coding, developers often need to work with code as more than just text. Visual Studio Code includes built-in support for always-on IntelliSense code completion, richer semantic code understanding and navigation, and code refactoring. VS Code includes enriched built-in support for Node.js development with TypeScript and JavaScript, powered by the same underlying technologies that drive Visual Studio. vS Code includes great tooling for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Less, Sass, and JSON. VS Code also integrates with package managers, repositories and build tools to perform common tasks to make everyday workflows faster. And VS Code understands Git, and delivers great Git workflows and source diffs integrated with the editor."

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by ausjke »

x5n1 wrote: post #35
thewhitetulip wrote: post #24

VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written on Unix/Linux. I love linux/unix, but the problem always was with the lack of an awesome text editor cum IDE, yep there is eclipse but it is too clunky, I do not like sublime as it isn't FOSS (call me crazy), gedit took way too much memory, geany is fast and mean but the UI sucks plus functionality isn't that great. Enter VSCode,…

I use Visual Code for Golang, for everything else Linux has other stuff that's better imo. Like Netbeans and PyCharm. Seems like I should be using it for TypeScript.

what about node.js development?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by rhodysurf »

levemi wrote: post #89
krzyk wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you liked Eclipse, then you should take a look at IntelliJ IDEA (and its companion IDEs), they are a leap forward from Eclipse.

Agreed, IntelliJ IDEA is so good I can't really use other editors for projects. For editing regular files outside of a project I still use vim or TextEdit/Notepad. I prefer Intellij so much I use CLion instead of Xcode on OS X and Visual Studio on Windows 10.

I didnt think Clion worked with MSVC?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by akio »

thewhitetulip wrote: post #24

VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written on Unix/Linux. I love linux/unix, but the problem always was with the lack of an awesome text editor cum IDE, yep there is eclipse but it is too clunky, I do not like sublime as it isn't FOSS (call me crazy), gedit took way too much memory, geany is fast and mean but the UI sucks plus functionality isn't that great. Enter VSCode,…

Noticeably missing from your list: IntelliJ and JetBrains's family of IDEs.

I understand that VSCode has changed coding for you. But how has it changed anything for the 92.8%[0] of developers that don't use VSCode?

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by ultramancool »

devy wrote: post #90
ultramancool wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29 Atom = 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code VSCode = 2015 Am I missing something? Sure, MS had some preview online IDE thing before VSCode came out, but that's not the same thing obviously.

Yes you are. Please read the original blog post. [1][2] Visual Studio code was originated from "Monaco" team, dated back in 2013. Eletron (formally Atom-shell) was dated in Feb-March 2014.[3] [1] http://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/04/14/vscode-1.0 [2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/micros... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)

Yeah, but point is, it wasn't released until 2015. Which is the part that matters. Who cares if they started developing something tangentially related to it 2 years earlier. Atom came out to the public first, and that's what matters in terms of plugins and such. I never heard anything about people making Monaco plugins, did you? VSCode was basically released because Electron came out. From the Atom devs. So while Monaco may have come first, VSCode certainly did not. And Monaco didn't offer the sort of things that VSCode and Atom focus on - namely community plugins.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by avolcano »

When I started using TypeScript a couple weeks ago I briefly tried out VS Code, but the VIM plugin was really, really bad (worse than Sublime's was when I used it a few years ago).

Now I'm on Atom, which has the best VIM support I've ever seen (haven't tried evil-mode, though) and seems to support a similar feature set. They felt about the same speed, too, on this 2013 Macbook Air.

Regardless, other than that quirk, I did really like VS Code, and I'm glad there's more competition in the free editor space :)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by zem »

flohofwoe wrote: post #84
thewhitetulip wrote: post #24

VSCode has done the thing that nobody expected MS to do, change the way code was written on Unix/Linux. I love linux/unix, but the problem always was with the lack of an awesome text editor cum IDE, yep there is eclipse but it is too clunky, I do not like sublime as it isn't FOSS (call me crazy), gedit took way too much memory, geany is fast and mean but the UI sucks plus functionality isn't that great. Enter VSCode,…

So, can VSCode run in a terminal window, without graphical user interface, while ssh'ed into another machine somewhere around the globe over a shitty internet connection, editing a file that's a few hundred megabytes big? As long as that's not possible it's not even a contest ;) I like VSCode because of it's debugger plugin infrastructure, but let's not get silly (MS changing the way code is written on Linux).

what percentage of your coding time do you spend doing things like that? rhapsodising over your text editor is a long-standing unix tradition; no reason vscode fans cannot be part of that!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by jagger27 »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #56
thewhitetulip wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what, gone are the days when we'd spend hours and hours to learn the little little ways of vi and the myriad functions in emacs. Now we need to get things done, can't afford to sit down and study the entire functions of vi and emacs. I don't mean to troll but after switching to vscode and the go plugin I learned go webdev and wrote this small intro book, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-text…

Atom has a great Go plugin: linting, context aware completion, fixes code style on save, etc..., all powered by Go's command line tools. I'm not saying Vim and Emacs are the be-all (I program mostly in R, so RStudio is my main tool), only that VS Code hasn't changed anything fundamentally. It's just a good editor.

Sublime Text has GoSublime as well.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.0

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Post by Rayearth »

Aleman360 wrote: post #19
dethswatch wrote: post #17

Well we know what happens to vStudio and WPF now, don't we?

UWP has the latest version of XAML, implemented natively this time and with a faster rendering backend. WPF lives on in spirit.

Even WinForms is still around somehow, though in a "cannot be killed" legacy Form as opposed to WPF having a direct descendant in UWP.

Silverlight, though...

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