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Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Re: Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Post by cyberferret »

You know, if 10 years ago someone had bet me that one day Microsoft would be the darling of the startup world, mainly for their embracing of the open source community and the linux movement, for supporting development on Apple devices, and for a kick a editor... I would have plonked down a wad of cash while laughing hard at them.

And I would have lost a lot of cash...

The ONLY reason I still use Safari on my Mac is to do web debugging of my hybrid (Ionic) apps. If I can do it all within VS Code, then it has just become my best argument to complete my triple jump from Sublime -> Atom -> VS Code.

Re: Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Post by eriknstr »

>Today debugging web sites running on iOS devices are limited to a subset of developers, as the Safari Web Inspector (Safari DevTools) requires an instance of desktop Safari which only is available for MacOS users.

That's not true. I have debugged web sites running on iOS devices using Chromium and ios_webkit_debug_proxy [0] running on Fedora 23.

I find it strange that they made this claim since they are even using the ios-webkit-debug-proxy project themselves.

[0]: https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy

Re: Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Post by pedalpete »

cyberferret wrote: post #3

You know, if 10 years ago someone had bet me that one day Microsoft would be the darling of the startup world, mainly for their embracing of the open source community and the linux movement, for supporting development on Apple devices, and for a kick a editor... I would have plonked down a wad of cash while laughing hard at them. And I would have lost a lot of cash... The ONLY reason I still use Safari on my Mac is t…

Darling of the start-up world is probably a bit much. I see very few developers running any Microsoft tools, and they still slag Microsoft for quality (which I have to admit is somewhat an issue still).

I think they are taking some good steps, some missteps, and it will be another generation before the early days of microsoft are forgotten.

Re: Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Post by zspitzer »

eriknstr wrote: post #5

>Today debugging web sites running on iOS devices are limited to a subset of developers, as the Safari Web Inspector (Safari DevTools) requires an instance of desktop Safari which only is available for MacOS users. That's not true. I have debugged web sites running on iOS devices using Chromium and ios_webkit_debug_proxy [0] running on Fedora 23. I find it strange that they made this claim since they are even using t…

Firefox already has this bundled in the developer edition and installable as an option for the normal version, it's called WebIDE https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Valence

Re: Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Post by cyberferret »

pedalpete wrote: post #6
cyberferret wrote: post #3

You know, if 10 years ago someone had bet me that one day Microsoft would be the darling of the startup world, mainly for their embracing of the open source community and the linux movement, for supporting development on Apple devices, and for a kick a editor... I would have plonked down a wad of cash while laughing hard at them. And I would have lost a lot of cash... The ONLY reason I still use Safari on my Mac is t…

Darling of the start-up world is probably a bit much. I see very few developers running any Microsoft tools, and they still slag Microsoft for quality (which I have to admit is somewhat an issue still). I think they are taking some good steps, some missteps, and it will be another generation before the early days of microsoft are forgotten.

Point taken, but you have to admit that the surge from Atom (which was the darling of startups everywhere) to VS Code in the past few months has been a stampede.

I never really had issues with Atom until co-incidentally today, when I had to open a large log file, and Atom kept crashing without being able to open it. VS Code opened it in 2 seconds and I could scroll around it blitzingly fast.

Given that both are built on the Electron engine, I have to say the VS Code seems like it has been architected better to handle large files.

Re: Introducing iOS Web Debugging for VS Code on Windows and Mac

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Post by skrowl »

pedalpete wrote: post #6
cyberferret wrote: post #3

You know, if 10 years ago someone had bet me that one day Microsoft would be the darling of the startup world, mainly for their embracing of the open source community and the linux movement, for supporting development on Apple devices, and for a kick a editor... I would have plonked down a wad of cash while laughing hard at them. And I would have lost a lot of cash... The ONLY reason I still use Safari on my Mac is t…

Darling of the start-up world is probably a bit much. I see very few developers running any Microsoft tools, and they still slag Microsoft for quality (which I have to admit is somewhat an issue still). I think they are taking some good steps, some missteps, and it will be another generation before the early days of microsoft are forgotten.

The enterprise world is a bit different, at least here in the USA. Windows and .NET are king here.
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