VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

VS Code always has such wonderful release notes. I don't think I use 10% of the features mentioned, but I love reading about them and learning about them in these notes anyway.

Re: VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

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Post by mikece » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

minionslave wrote: post #2

At this point I am 100% sure, VS code will become a IDE like Visual Studio.

If they ever add a visual editor that could be true. Still tons of thing Visual Studio does that VS Code doesn't.

Re: VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

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Post by mikece » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

Not reloading when adding an extension is a long-overdue feature, in my opinion. What were the technical reasons for needed to reload?

Re: VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

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Post by 2bitencryption » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

minionslave wrote: post #2

At this point I am 100% sure, VS code will become a IDE like Visual Studio.

I think the key is that it has the potential to be a great platform.

The text-editing "fundamentals" are covered by the Monaco engine. The rest is covered by extensions.

Out of the box, it's not much more than a glorified Notepad. Add some extensions and suddenly I'm stepping through my Rust breakpoints and inspecting values.

Re: VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

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Post by bunderbunder » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

minionslave wrote: post #2

At this point I am 100% sure, VS code will become a IDE like Visual Studio.

For many languages it's pretty much there, if you install the right extensions. Sometimes, yeah, excessively so.

But then you uninstall that extension and it's a nice, reasonably lightweight editor again.

Re: VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

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Post by Scarbutt » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

This allows you to create a VS Code terminal panel, which occupies the complete editor area as shown below:

Emphasis on: which occupies the complete editor area as shown below:

So finally windows has a decent terminal emulator, will install vscode just for this next time I'm on windows.

Re: VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released

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Post by gigatexal » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

It’s still from a UI/UX perspective needlessly complicated. I wish they would make things a bit more obvious.