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Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by jinmingjian »

Kudos!

VSC is an "redefined" and high hackable (largely thanks to the rich nodejs ecosystem) editing environment which you can do everything as you like. So, to pin it into an editor or an IDE makes less sense.

more technical imagination: the project lead Erich Gamma has long history works in the field of Eclipse and definitely knows the importance (and pain) of the code editing to a programmer. Then, I (and we) can expect VSC would go beyond the Eclipse and hunt the heart of coders from other IDE products some day:)

final shameless insert: recently I release an extension to provide Swift editing environment[1] to try to bring Go/Rust like experiment for Swift server side development. Now it works for both Linux and macOS.(I hope to investigate the possibility for windows 10 WSL after release 2.0 coming soon.)

[1] https://github.com/jinmingjian/sde

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by vikingcaffiene »

I was a die hard ST3 user and Microsoft hater and I begrudgingly gave VS Code a shot after a dev I respected gave it a shout out on twitter. After a day of heavy use it became my daily driver. It is a great balance of speed, configurability, and features. Very impressed and highly recommend giving it a shot. Its just getting better and better.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by jshen »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #41

I am surprised at the amount of semi-negative comments here. Yes, some features are yet to be implemented, (it's still a fairly young project and you can always follow GitHub issues on progress), but for an Electron app, it's surprisingly fast and capable. The Microsoft-developed Go plugin makes it the best Go IDE out there, the devs, (Ramya Rao etc.) are super responsive and really trying to resolve issues quickly.…

Anyone know if it works with the app engine runtime for go? I've never gotten anything to work for that except IntelliJ.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by CyanLite2 »

christophilus wrote: post #30

VSCode really does improve with each release, and the monthly cycle is just about the perfect pace. This is a great example of how to run an OSS project. I wonder how much Microsoft spends on it each month, and what value they see in it? Is it just a marketing expense? e.g. They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?

It's the only practical way to do cross-platform .NET Core development.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by candiodari »

Given that this runs on electron, which is basically a web browser with a node backend, is it possible to run this either as a webserver or otherwise remotely ?

I'd like to run this with the webserver running on a big dev machine at work and the client at work. X forwarding is not working well for me at least.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by floopidydoopidy »

CyanLite2 wrote: post #224
christophilus wrote: post #30

VSCode really does improve with each release, and the monthly cycle is just about the perfect pace. This is a great example of how to run an OSS project. I wonder how much Microsoft spends on it each month, and what value they see in it? Is it just a marketing expense? e.g. They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?

It's the only practical way to do cross-platform .NET Core development.

If that's true, then I'd recommend not using either .NET or VSCode if cross platform matters to you.

Historically speaking, Microsoft will break compatibility when it suits them.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by bitmapbrother »

pjmlp wrote: post #147
bitmapbrother wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No they won't. No one wants to use clunky non touch optimized windows desktop apps on a tablet. Besides, UWP was a failure.

Ever heard of Project Centennial? Or the fact that all new APIs are mostly UWP only?

Yes, and how's that coming along? Is this "project" supposed to make those old clunky non touch optimized windows desktop apps suddenly usable on a tablet? I don't think so. Instead its going to be another failure just like Project Astoria and Project Islandwood.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by wattt »

I have used vim for years and I was tasked with making an Electron app for a client so I tried vscode... And I love it! I still use vim for sysadmin things but it has been the first thing Microsoft has made since the original Natural Keyboard that I absolutely love. It is good. I recommend it to others. I hate bloated editors and it is good... No config/setup process either - the defaults are enough!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by wattt »

computerex wrote: post #124
AsyncAwait wrote: post #41

I am surprised at the amount of semi-negative comments here. Yes, some features are yet to be implemented, (it's still a fairly young project and you can always follow GitHub issues on progress), but for an Electron app, it's surprisingly fast and capable. The Microsoft-developed Go plugin makes it the best Go IDE out there, the devs, (Ramya Rao etc.) are super responsive and really trying to resolve issues quickly.…

I concur, the Go plugin is top notch. It even has a fantastic vim emulation plugin that works reasonably well.

It does. The only things quirky about it: command mode "up" button doesn't know about the history of past commands... Sucky for iterating on a regex. Undo is also broken, but it took me 2 full months to notice that the vim plugin broke undo!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by wattt »

pjmlp wrote: post #75
AsyncAwait wrote: post #41

I am surprised at the amount of semi-negative comments here. Yes, some features are yet to be implemented, (it's still a fairly young project and you can always follow GitHub issues on progress), but for an Electron app, it's surprisingly fast and capable. The Microsoft-developed Go plugin makes it the best Go IDE out there, the devs, (Ramya Rao etc.) are super responsive and really trying to resolve issues quickly.…

How does it compare to LiteIDE?

I have never heard of that, but I will share one thing I like about it as an IDE (and historically I have hated IDEs and used vim)... No config. Open a "folder", no project setup bullshit, and it remembers your work-state for each project/folder you open... And best part: autocomplete! But it is not heavy and slow. It does autocomplete per-file. So it does not need to analyse my entire project codebase, it just sees I used a word before and lets me tab to complete. So nice.
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