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Copy Syntax Highlight is huge. Years ago, I had written a utility to invoke syntax highlighting from text sources for use in PowerPoint presentations and Photoshop editing ( https://github.com/minimaxir/copy-syntax-highlight-osx/ ); I am very happy it is now obsolete.
What is the difference between this and Visual Studio Mac? Is there a reason I would pick one over the other?
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It's everything a scroll bar does and more. Yea you can kind of get to know the structure of your code which is nice and sometimes when I open up a file and the mini-map is dense I already know I'm getting into a big file. One of the most useful features for me (not sure if VS Code has this), but when I double-click/select a word, all other words with the same name are highlighted in the minimap. It's crazy useful fo…
Playing around with the minimap now, and disappointingly it doesn't seem to render the text selection (at least not at my dpi). Was looking forward to that as well. If you haven't tried vscode however, it's always had selection markers inside the real scrollbar.
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?
I don't think this has happened before to me that I "complained" about something and it got actually fixed!
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?
Visual studio code is also the best option for writing Rust on any platform these days (imo!). Haven't noticed myself buying more microsoft products, but have noticed how much more interested I am in what microsoft is releasing these days (.NET core for example)
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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.
Wait what? So I switch from Sublime Text to Azure? Where is the missing node here... How do you go from using VS Code to using Azure?
I haven't been following Atom, or other editors, very closely since I started using VS Code. But this team seems to be going at an incredible pace!! Well done another superb release. Keep it up.
Truth. Go to GitHub and check out their milestones. It's so great to know what is coming in the upcoming monthly release.
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?
It makes C# and F# development possible (Without pain) on Linux and Mac, so there is that.
What is the difference between this and Visual Studio Mac? Is there a reason I would pick one over the other?
Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform programmer's text editor, similar to Sublime or Atom. If you are into .NET, it has a good server-side development experience, but for client-side you'll want to stick with the full Visual Studio IDEs.
Code is very extensible, though, and has support for a ton of platforms that you might not normally see supported in the full IDE. You might prefer it for JavaScript, Go, Rust, etc.
Also, Code works on Linux. :-)
Hope that helps!
Disclaimer: I work on dev tools at Microsoft.