Visual Studio Code 1.7.2 • Hacker News Board

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by KevanM » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 10:45 PM UTC

OldSchoolJohnny wrote: post #19

I wish they would consider changing the name of it, it's all but impossible to search for any internet wide resources on it.

I find VSCode usually does the trick.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by flukus » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 10:56 PM UTC

kinkdr wrote: post #2

The speed at which they release updates is at least impressive. Visual Studio Code and Typescript have completely changed the way I look at MS. Kudos to the team.

> The speed at which they release updates is at least impressive.

How so? Many companies and projects iterate this fast, many even faster.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by shankun » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 10:59 PM UTC

csinco wrote: post #17

c54 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks to be ~20 people as far as I can tell (source: I'm a MS employee, not on the vscode team)

It's less than that. I used to be the designer on the team. For the initial release, we had 13 people.

With or without management overhead?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by jhasse » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

yulaow wrote: post #10

I wish they would start working on a auto-update feature for linux installations

The relevant issues:

apt: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973 yum/dnf: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by jhasse » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 11:13 PM UTC

santaclaus wrote: post #8

Why does this point release require ffmpeg?

How does it require ffmpeg?

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by vmarsy » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 11:13 PM UTC

Awesome!

In the next release we'll hopefully have the "hot-exit" behavior like Sublime, where you can close the editor without having to save files, and they're back where you left off when re-opening.

Apparently, the PR for this got merged only 2 weeks ago [1]

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issuecomment-...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by mastazi » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 11:36 PM UTC

flukus wrote: post #22

kinkdr wrote: post #2

The speed at which they release updates is at least impressive. Visual Studio Code and Typescript have completely changed the way I look at MS. Kudos to the team.

> The speed at which they release updates is at least impressive. How so? Many companies and projects iterate this fast, many even faster.

> Many companies

True, but that wasn't the case with your grandpa's MS.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by fencepost » Tue, Nov 22, 2016, 11:52 PM UTC

vmarsy wrote: post #26

Awesome! In the next release we'll hopefully have the "hot-exit" behavior like Sublime, where you can close the editor without having to save files, and they're back where you left off when re-opening. Apparently, the PR for this got merged only 2 weeks ago [1] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issuecomment-...

Given the recent increase in Windows' no-you-can't-stop-me update restart behavior this seems more important every week, at least on my Windows 10 guinea pig system. Being able to just throw some text into a blank buffer and not lose it in Notepad++ has made that my scratch pad of choice these days.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by Aldo_MX » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 12:18 AM UTC

jhasse wrote: post #25

santaclaus wrote: post #8

Why does this point release require ffmpeg?

How does it require ffmpeg?

https://www.chromium.org/audio-video

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.7.2

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Post by matt4077 » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 12:46 AM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #16

hackcrafter wrote: post #4

I think these "recovery builds" are inevitable with the cadence they are maintaining on major releases. Fastest moving MS project I've seen. I'm really curious how big their team is that works on this. 2-pizza sized?

I'd be willing to send the team a couple pizza's for their work on this... It's my favorite product to ever come out of MS.

I believe they're in Switzerland, so you may want to be careful with that – or VSCode may become the most expensive software you're using this year :)

IIRC, there was/is a frequent stream of pizzas being delivered over the German-Swiss border because of the price difference – it got so much that they actually started to set up customs checks.