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

Post by timboslice » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #224

shankun wrote: post #213

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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).

Post by tomjen3 » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 6:53 PM UTC

gbl08ma wrote: post #133

The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom (as others pointed out, it's based on Electron). Meanwhile, Sublime Text is using less than 100 MB of RAM with dozens of files open, some of them quite big. Visual Studio tends to use less memory than this, too. If "the language services [Microsoft] built for…

Post by danesparza » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 6:55 PM UTC

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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 Studio Online "Monaco" code editor from November 14, 2013 seems to be the predecessor: http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/a-quick-look-at-the-new-v... (scroll half way down for many screenshots and videos) "This is the Monaco editor component from Erich Gamma's group out of Zurich. It was originally written in JavaScript but gradually rewritten in TypeScript. When Anders speaks about teams within Microsoft bui…

Post by mikeash » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 6:57 PM UTC

mynameisvlad wrote: post #21

jroseattle wrote: post #15

Tried -- failed. Login through MS, then get screen that it's unavailable. Come on, MS.

"(if this link isn’t live yet, give it a few more minutes and then try again)." It's literally right after the link. What did you expect? It's a breaking story, the product was just announced and in the conference it was announced as available later today.

Post by tracker1 » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:01 PM UTC

trwired wrote: post #236

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Actually seems to work better than Atom or Brackets so far... I found both to be intolerable pretty quickly... this, I'll be continuing with for a couple days, I like the UI better than sublimetext so far.

I don't really understand the sentiment that you have expressed in your aside. If they deliver an interesting and/or useful product, why not reward them with credit?