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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 MCRed »

AdamTReineke wrote: post #168
jordz wrote: post #109

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This editor is built on Atom.

From their docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs Architecturally, Visual Studio Code combines the best of web, native, and language-specific technologies. Using the GitHub Electron Shell, Code combines web technologies such as JavaScript and Node.js with the speed and flexibility of native apps. Code uses a newer, faster version of the same industrial-strength HTML-based editor that has powered the “Monaco” cloud…

The Electron Shell was previously known as the Atom Shell. So part of it is Atom work.

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

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Post by sea6ear »

Sharma wrote: post #150

At the bottom of the download page, "If you don't want to send your crash dumps to Microsoft, don't install this tool." That is rude!

From other comments, it appears that this is because this is a preview, and once it goes into full release, there will be an option to opt out.

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

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Post by _random_ »

WDCDev wrote: post #324
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #250

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WPF?! You cannot be serious.

WPF is, by far, the most pleasant and flexible thick client, windowing system out there. XAML is a bit verbose, but the binding capabilities combined with an open source MVVM framework like Caliburn allow you to build extremely flexible UIs. WPF also abstracts control behavior away from presentation and allows you to easily and quickly extend the base set of controls to do whatever you want to. After building multipl…

Also (as a sane alternative to ) where you can actually align stuff exactly the way you want.

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

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Post by kryptiskt »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #126
pyre wrote: post #116

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Even when Microsoft 'Embraced and Extended' Java, it was only on the Windows platform. It was not cross -platform. The whole point of that methodology wasn't to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java, but to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java on the Microsoft Windows platform.

It was not cross-platform Cross-platform didn't mean much in 1995. Which other platform was there at the time? Apple was dead in the water. Red Hat had just come into existence. Netscape Navigator 1.0 had just shipped in December 1994.

Everybody talked about thin clients and Java as an OS at that time, there was a massive Java hype going. The things Microsoft struck preempively against largely never materialized thanks to super-crappy broadband (if it even existed) and lousy early Java performance (there are dozens of Java office suites, browsers etc that never got traction or was canned before release thanks to general unmarketability).

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

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Post by shmerl »

krylon wrote: post #92

Ever since Nadella took over at Microsoft, such news items are becoming more and more frequent. Ten years ago, my first reaction at such a headline would have been to check my calendar if it's April 1st. Microsoft has come a long way from the company that everybody loved to hate. IMHO, they still have a long way ahead of them, but it's nice to see they seem to be serious about it. With Ballmer at the helm, I had the…

Nadela makes some good changes. Let's see if it will continue into abolishing MS historic crooked practices like vendor lock-in, standards hijacking and patents abuse. When Nadela will do that, I'll agree that MS has really seriously changed for the better.

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

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Post by tlianza »

MCRed wrote: post #351
AdamTReineke wrote: post #168

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From their docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs Architecturally, Visual Studio Code combines the best of web, native, and language-specific technologies. Using the GitHub Electron Shell, Code combines web technologies such as JavaScript and Node.js with the speed and flexibility of native apps. Code uses a newer, faster version of the same industrial-strength HTML-based editor that has powered the “Monaco” cloud…

The Electron Shell was previously known as the Atom Shell. So part of it is Atom work.

embraced and extended? [ducks]

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

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Post by geoelectric »

LastZactionHero wrote: post #174

Does anyone know how to turn on automatic suggestions for non-supported languages? Syntax highlighting works great for Ruby (not officially supported), and good suggestions appear with "Ctrl-Space", but not automatically. Haven't had much luck with the settings JSON. Pretty neat, though!

Anyone have a complete list of languages with "non-support"? I was a little underwhelmed with the official list, but Ruby was one of my wants there. What else does it highlight that's not on the official page?

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

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Post by Matthias247 »

As some members of the development team are reading here:

Text rendering on Win8.1 with 4k screen and 175% scaling is slightly blurry compared to normal Visual Studio. Is that known and are there any plans to improve on that? I remembered similar issues with Atom before :(

Otherwise it looks great for a first release! Looking forward to how it evolves.

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

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Post by billforsternz »

MCRed wrote: post #349
ryanmarsh wrote: post #285

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Some HN'ers may not recall Microsoft's "sleeping giant awakes" moment with the Internet in the 90's. Speaking of tidal waves, hang on to your surfboards, it's going to be big and fast. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.htm...

It is now just a month shy of 20 years since that letter was written. And what did Microsoft do? They bought a browser and gave it away for free, cutting off Netscape at the knees, til the company folded and become the Mozilla Foundation. They poured billions and billions of dollars into online initiatives from the Microsoft Network to Bing, including buying dozens and dozens of companies. None of those were big succ…

> .net which is just a renamed MFC

I can't agree with this. MFC was a thin C++ encapsulation of the Windows API. It was a reasonably successful technology but was unloved largely because it was so thin - it didn't try to fix the ugly mess beneath and so left developers wrestling a large smelly octopus. .Net was more of a clean room attempt to provide developers with a clean, sane, consistent API built on a new virtual machine based architecture complete with a shiny new language (C#, basically Java++).

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

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Post by waterlesscloud »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #329
hackuser wrote: post #318

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> Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company From Wikipedia: Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 percent to $23 billion May all companies suffer equally incompetent CEOs.

Over the same period Apple was going from $8 billion to $182 billion in revenue and Google was going from $3 billion to $66 billion in revenue.

Google is a completely unfair comparison as that was their prime growth stage.
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