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Am I misrembering this coming out a few months ago? Maybe it was merely announced, but I could have sworn I heard people talking about using it.
Yeah, you're definitely right. This has been out for quite some time (I believe around the fall time frame last year, which was when I heard about it/started using it).
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Yeah, you're definitely right. This has been out for quite some time (I believe around the fall time frame last year, which was when I heard about it/started using it).
You're thinking of Visual Studio Code, an open source code editor. Visual Studio is Microsoft's whole IDE.
Here's a news article about it (dated: Nov 16, 2016): https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-officially-launc...
They released Visual Studio Code around the same time, iirc.
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It's not incredibly surprising to me (though I am surprised there was no forward announcement before the preview release). It became clear a while back that Microsoft was looking to expand it's developer environment to other platforms when they announced ports for .NET and SQL Server. Don't forget that Visual Studio Code has been cross-platform since inception.
Right, but I thought that VS Code was going to the only concession to cross-platform coding. It's cross-platform, but built on completely different tech and obviously designed for a different kind of workflow to Visual Studio. I assumed it was intended to be a "gateway drug" to lure a few more people to fully leaded Visual Studio.
Wow. I literally spit out my coffee. I wish I had something more intelligent to add, but even in the new Microsoft era this is shocking to me. I'm sure others saw this coming, but even with cross-platform dot net backend, I figured Visual Studio would stay Windows only indefinitely. Cheers to being wrong.