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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by brudgers »

I think VS Code is pretty awesome. But I stopped using it because the monthly update experience on Ubuntu Linux pretty much sucks...by which I mean it mirrors the Windows update experience. One day I sit down to work and it's time to update and I lose fifteen or twenty minutes plus flow state going through the process (o.k. Windows with multiple reboots is actually noticeably worse often times (like just earlier this week)).

I get that there might not be business value in maintaining a PPA. And upgrading Emacs to the latest version required compiling from source (chosen over trusting something unofficial) and that was a more of a pain in the ass than updating VS Code tends to be by a factor of six. But I only need to suffer that pain occasionally and Emacs does not nag me every time open it up and make me feel like I should upgrade.

Again, I like VS Code, but I don't like being a second class citizen for using Linux. [1] I just want to go to my editor session and edit whether it's the last day of the month or the first.

[1]: I'm not anti Windows - but for Vista, I've used every desktop version for making money since Windows 3.1 (and DOS's before that) and owned each of them but for NT 4.0 and Vista. Even ME and XP Professional x64.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by rchowe »

Dangeranger wrote: post #15

What is the long term value to Microsoft for VS Code? It is definitely improving their image within the web development community, and I imagine it is also winning them favor with Go developers. Have people noticed a network effect after using VS Code? Are you getting sucked into the rest of the MS ecosystem at all?

Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source projects like TypeScript and .NET Core act as a funnel to drive people to Azure.

I also think that they are trying to position .NET Core as a viable competitor to Java, for which they need decent cross-platform tooling.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by swalsh »

boardwaalk wrote: post #18
santaclaus wrote: post #3

A minimap! This was one of the last remaining Sublime features that I missed.

Can someone explain the attraction of the minimap? It's something I turn off in any editor. I can't rely on a postage stamp size picture of my code being unique enough between different parts of a file -- beyond perhaps the imports/constants/macros at the top, which you don't need help finding anyways. ctrl-f or 'go to definition' has been enough.

I worked at a company that had some files that were thousands of lines long. The result of 10 years of entropy build up.

When you've worked with these files long enough, and it sounds kind of funny, but the shape of the code becomes very familiar. Searching for keywords though usually my primary method of finding places in code was sometimes less effective because it would occur multiple times (think function names) however I was intimately familiar with the shape of the code, so I could just jump to the 2 indented part.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by rudedogg »

brudgers wrote: post #21

I think VS Code is pretty awesome. But I stopped using it because the monthly update experience on Ubuntu Linux pretty much sucks...by which I mean it mirrors the Windows update experience. One day I sit down to work and it's time to update and I lose fifteen or twenty minutes plus flow state going through the process (o.k. Windows with multiple reboots is actually noticeably worse often times (like just earlier this…

Did you see this: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_official-signed...

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by compsciphd »

brudgers wrote: post #21

I think VS Code is pretty awesome. But I stopped using it because the monthly update experience on Ubuntu Linux pretty much sucks...by which I mean it mirrors the Windows update experience. One day I sit down to work and it's time to update and I lose fifteen or twenty minutes plus flow state going through the process (o.k. Windows with multiple reboots is actually noticeably worse often times (like just earlier this…

if you read the link, you'd see that this hole post has been addressed....

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by mattbierner »

bcherny wrote: post #6

Awesome work VSCode team!! I can't figure out how to enable TypeScript auto import - is it hidden behind a flag? Coming from IDEs, I've been waiting for this feature for a long time.

I work on TS and JS support for VSCode. Try moving the cursor into red squiggles for the missing symbol and then clicking on the lightbulb in the gutter or hitting cmd+period. This will bring up the quick fix menu for adding missing imports.

We don't support automatically adding imports as you type, but this is something we are looking into.

If you see any problems with the feature or have any suggestions on how it could be improved, please open an issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by santaclaus »

boardwaalk wrote: post #18
santaclaus wrote: post #3

A minimap! This was one of the last remaining Sublime features that I missed.

Can someone explain the attraction of the minimap? It's something I turn off in any editor. I can't rely on a postage stamp size picture of my code being unique enough between different parts of a file -- beyond perhaps the imports/constants/macros at the top, which you don't need help finding anyways. ctrl-f or 'go to definition' has been enough.

I like it for log and configuration files where I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for. Changes in shape often correlate with new sections.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by Tyriar »

brudgers wrote: post #21

I think VS Code is pretty awesome. But I stopped using it because the monthly update experience on Ubuntu Linux pretty much sucks...by which I mean it mirrors the Windows update experience. One day I sit down to work and it's time to update and I lose fifteen or twenty minutes plus flow state going through the process (o.k. Windows with multiple reboots is actually noticeably worse often times (like just earlier this…

Hi brudgers, I'm on the VS Code team and I look after most of the Linux related stuff. I feel your pain as I've been updating my Insiders build nearly every day for the past 12 months. When you install this version, an apt repo and signing key will automatically be registered in your system which will enable auto-updates from here on. You can also install the repo manually if you want[1].

I've created an issue to follow up what to do with the update notification now that the repo exists[2].

[1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux#_debian-and-u...

[2]: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/21651

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by chrisper »

The repo seems to be broken for me on Debian Testing. Maybe they should list "apt-transport-https" as a dependency.

Hit:1 http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian stretch InRelease

Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease

Reading package lists... Done

E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.

N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?

E: Failed to fetch https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode/dists/stable/InR...

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.`

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by msoad »

Zaheer wrote: post #10

VSCode team is killing it! Literally every month its tangibly making the product better. I still use Sublime occasionally on really large files as its performance is so good but for most things VSCode is my go-to!

Yes, opening large files is not too bad but using a multi-selector with more than 300 matches is pretty much impossible in VSCode.
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