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

Post by benrhughes » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 4:23 AM 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 sidthekidder » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 4:28 AM UTC

Jare wrote: post #367

mmgutz wrote: post #157

I prefer it to atom already on OSX. * handles multiple files well. atom ends up being too many tabs with no quick way to get to them * MRU file switching * shows side by side default v user settings * launches must faster (which is strange since it is based on electron) * JS debbuger Can't wait to try the CoreCLR.

I just tried a 100MB C++ file; it opened in 2 seconds, and navigated very fast. No syntax highlighting, however a 20MB C++ file did receive syntax highlighting in the background (took around 30 seconds to reach the bottom), with navigation still 100% fast and responsive. Right now, this thing blows the Atom editor out of the water in terms of performance. For plugins and breadth of available functionality, Atom is mi…

Post by billrobertson42 » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 4:32 AM UTC

mwcampbell wrote: post #310

Alphasite_ wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or even IntelliJs skin and components for Swing.

Do the IntelliJ skin and components have any advantages over Eclipse's SWT in your opinion? My understanding is that Swing is much heavier. In fact, SWT was originally designed for Java 2 Micro Edition [1]. [1]: http://flylib.com/books/en/2.120.1.42/1/

Post by rbanffy » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 4:39 AM UTC

billforsternz wrote: post #434

daemin wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MFC is not a thin layer over the Win32 API, it's a thick document centric app building framework. If you want a thin layer around Win32 then try WTL.

From wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Foundation_Class_Libr... "MFC was introduced in 1992 with Microsoft's C/C++ 7.0 compiler for use with 16-bit versions of Windows as an extremely thin object-oriented C++ wrapper for the Windows API." Thinness is probably in the eye of the beholder, but as one of the many MFC victims back in the day, I found using MFC to be endlessly frustrating because it added a…

Post by ericras » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 4:41 AM UTC

brc wrote: post #424

MCRed wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Were you around 20 years ago? What they did was bundle internet connectivity in with the every windows PC. Sounds ridiculous even mentioning it, right? Back then you couldn't connect to the internet without installing third party tools, usually from an ISP on a disc. You had to install a browser, you couldn't embed hyperlinks in documents, there was no built-in way to get an email client..etcetcetc. The original memo…