Visual Studio Code 1.5 • Hacker News Board

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

#11

Post by drewrv » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

I've been using VS Code for a couple months now to do django development. This is a welcome update as the file explorer being hard to read was my only real complaint.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by mastax » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #6

I'm still holding out for Visual Studio for Mac.APP, not crummy Xamarin or a glorified text editor.

You'll be holding out for a long time, then.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by out_of_protocol » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

hexis wrote: post #4

out_of_protocol wrote: post #2

Anti-dupe rules are too tight - redirected me to 1.4 discussion (opened a while ago) due to non-unique url

This looks like a reasonable and unique URL for this story - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_5

Thanks! Hard to find :(

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by plexicle » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:42 PM UTC

Opening a newly cloned Chromium repository in ~3s is very impressive to be honest.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by k__ » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

Do they color changed files in the sidebar now or do I still have to switch to the version control view?

edit: serious question, I like the coloring of changed/new files in Atom.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by vetinari » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #6

I'm still holding out for Visual Studio for Mac.APP, not crummy Xamarin or a glorified text editor.

You can find it under name IntelliJ IDEA.app ;)

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #12

ZanyProgrammer wrote: post #6

I'm still holding out for Visual Studio for Mac.APP, not crummy Xamarin or a glorified text editor.

You'll be holding out for a long time, then.

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by mrspeaker » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:45 PM UTC

thatswrong0 wrote: post #8

I switched from Atom recently and have very few complaints. One of them was the (lack of) icons in the sidebar.. the new Seti icon theme is a great addition. Ooh and they supposedly made Cmd-P searching ('Quick Open') faster. My other main complaint! Edit: Yep it's faster. I used to wait a second or two for the desired results to pop up, now they're close to instant.

I don't hold allegiances to a text editor (c'mon, it just edits text!) so I switched from Atom for a while too: I was very impressed with it (it feels so snappy, and looks so cool!). It fell over on linting some of the ES7/8 things that we use in our code base - but as soon as they fix that I will give it another serious go.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by gary__ » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:47 PM UTC

alexkavon wrote: post #7

I find it interesting that this software isn't designed with Xamarin for all platforms, but instead uses Electron. I mean I get it, the cross platform libraries are better in Electron, but it side steps their current cross platform initiative.

VS Code Initial release: April 29, 2015 Xamarin Acquisition Announcement Feb 24, 2016

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.5

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Post by Touche » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 7:48 PM UTC

alexkavon wrote: post #7

I find it interesting that this software isn't designed with Xamarin for all platforms, but instead uses Electron. I mean I get it, the cross platform libraries are better in Electron, but it side steps their current cross platform initiative.

Xamarin doesn't support the platform the editor was originally written for: the web.