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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by qhe »

tracker1 wrote: post #134
nothrabannosir wrote: post #56

Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in? Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else. But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba.…

I actually tried it for about a half hour, and so far like it a lot... I don't know if/what plugins will become available. I do like that the side menu makes it much easier to show/hide the file directory view (which is indispensable imho). Also, the git integration seems very nice, I haven't tried it as I'm editing via a samba share to a nix machine and don't want to screw up the file permissions. A couple nitpicks.…

You can set line endings on the bottom right on the blue toolbar right next to the language, where it should say LF or CRLF.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by mozumder »

davidgerard wrote: post #179
fragmede wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows is becoming irrelevant, Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough', and worst of all, Microsoft completely missed the boat on mobile. The Microsoft of old would have died out eventually. What we are seeing is not something you see often - a behemoth of a company doing a 'pivot'. What would you do remain relevant in the face of the majority of the internet services no…

Linux owns everything else, but Microsoft still own the corporate - and home - desktop. Devs using Linux or Mac are not the majority of users.

I doubt MS owns the home anymore. The number from a few years ago showed college freshmen using Macs by 70%.

MS is still corporate-centric in the US, and popular in foreign countries where Apple stores don't exist in large numbers.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by jjuhl »

It may be cool. It may even work. It's still a Microsoft product and for that reason alone I won't touch it. They've been shit-talking Linux/UNIX for 20+ years and screwing us over in uncountable ways for even longer. They may be changing, but I, for one, will never trust them due to their history.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by tomjen3 »

shankun wrote: post #213
frik wrote: post #176

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Sorry to nick pick but the following download statement is "not optimal": When this tool crashes, we automatically collect crash dumps so we can figure out what went wrong. If you don’t want to send your crash dumps to Microsoft, don't install this tool. So no check box to deactivate this phone-home feature that used to be standard in Microsoft products like Visual Studio, Office and Windows. That's a regression. (So…

Visual Code is a brand new tool, and we only use the telemetry to help improve product quality, and better understand how our tool and features are being used so we can know how to improve VSCode. By the time we exit Preview, we will provide a way to opt out of this reporting.

Whats in the crash info? Because even the name of the file or any memory content means I can't use it because it might leak company secrets (e.g product names).

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by jmcqk6 »

ijoyce wrote: post #68

Tell me about the R# support. That's the only thing making VS usable.

Resharper probably isn't going to run on here. Resharper has definitely been a requirement in the past, but Jetbrains seems to be slow to embrace Rosylen, which is clearly the future on .NET. It's not at all clear to be how long they're going to remain in their dominant position.

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Post by dijit »

marssaxman wrote: post #162
venomsnake wrote: post #73

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So ... pretty much perfect?

except for the part where it's written in Javascript and is thus a bloated memory hog, yes.

worth it... this is a specialist application, I dont mind developers having another chunk of memory for a better development environment.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by tomjen3 »

dsg42 wrote: post #146
fragmede wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows is becoming irrelevant, Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough', and worst of all, Microsoft completely missed the boat on mobile. The Microsoft of old would have died out eventually. What we are seeing is not something you see often - a behemoth of a company doing a 'pivot'. What would you do remain relevant in the face of the majority of the internet services no…

You're completely lost in your Silicon Valley mindset. Most of the western world still shows up to work and uses Office on Windows. Even in tech, I've seen non-technical workers request PC's just so they can use "real" Office. Office for Mac doesn't cut it. And while it might be good enough for you, it's not for many people who rely on Word, Office, and PowerPoint for work. Oh, and Google Docs is hardly free in the o…

I am very far from the valley, but we have mostly phased office out in favor of google docs. It turns out that easy sharing is the killer feature and that google docs really is good enough which will obviously differ based on what you do.

What non-technical users request won't matter, they will ask for whatever they are familiar with and complain if any icon is moved just slightly.

Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

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Post by carlosrg »

fragmede wrote: post #131
nothrabannosir wrote: post #56

Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in? Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else. But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba.…

Windows is becoming irrelevant, Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough', and worst of all, Microsoft completely missed the boat on mobile. The Microsoft of old would have died out eventually. What we are seeing is not something you see often - a behemoth of a company doing a 'pivot'. What would you do remain relevant in the face of the majority of the internet services no…

Windows is far, far away from becoming irrelevant.
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