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Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by chillee »

Since it first popped up on my radar last summer, VSCode has quickly become my favorite editor. A combination of great features that are a pain/poorly done in other editors (intellisense for many languages, a proper debugger, an integrated terminal that's just as fast as my actual terminal (I've actually gotten into the workflow of opening up huge files in vim in the integrated terminal), etc.) make VSCode amazing.

Especially when you compare the rate of improvement of VSCode to Sublime or Atom, VSCode is on an upwards track, and they've clearly captured major mindshare. (https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017#technology-mo...)

In addition, VSCodeVim is among the best in terms of vim plugins that I've used (VSVim is still better), and I thought it was amazing that Microsoft assigned an official employee to work on it.

Disclaimer: I have contributed code to the VSCodeVim extension, but that was because I liked the plugin so much (that, and there was a bug that really bothered me).

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by shock »

>Search in Keyboard Shortcuts editor is improved to support all possible terms for modifier keys in corresponding platforms. meta, cmd, command, windows ctrl, control alt, option shift

Except `super` :)

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by Joeri »

VS code is improving faster than any other IDE / programmer's editor. I wonder what sort of team size is behind it, and how long microsoft will keep funding that team on something that doesn't earn them any money. I also wonder what the end game is with respect to the regular visual studio, because as VS code picks up plugins and features it is covering more and more of the IDE feature space, and eventually the difference is going to come down to how it feels to use, not what it can do.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by msoad »

VSCode is really popular! I wrote a very dumb extension for my own use and published it so I have access to it when I want it. Just checked and saw it has more than 100k downloads!

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by guiambros »

koolba wrote: post #7

I've been running Linux as my primary desktop OS for a bit over two decades. If you told me five years ago that the majority of my daily coding would take place in an editor written by Microsoft I'd have thought you were crazy. VS Code is an awesome editor and is improving at an equally awesome pace. Kudos to Microsoft and the team behind it.

Same here. I'm still shocked that my go-to IDE on Linux is something created by Microsoft, debugging languages they have nothing to do (Python), and distributed for free.

Great way to win back share of mind of developers.

Smart, Microsoft.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by Clubber »

Joeri wrote: post #13

VS code is improving faster than any other IDE / programmer's editor. I wonder what sort of team size is behind it, and how long microsoft will keep funding that team on something that doesn't earn them any money. I also wonder what the end game is with respect to the regular visual studio, because as VS code picks up plugins and features it is covering more and more of the IDE feature space, and eventually the diffe…

VS code is a snack for Linux and Mac developers. It is intended to lure those people to the Microsoft (and Azure) platform. They are able to do it so well, so quickly because Windows Visual Studio has much of that functionality already in it.

I suspect VSCode, just like NETCore will become their standard. I'm sure they have a path to switchover. They are banking on Azure now, so anything that pulls people to Azure is what they are investing in.

The biggest difference I can see between the Gates/Balmer era and the Nadella era is Gates/Balmer refused to do anything that would in any way endanger their Windows platform. This made them a ton of money for many years, but stole from their future as Linux took over the server side.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by ppog »

Clubber wrote: post #19
Joeri wrote: post #13

VS code is improving faster than any other IDE / programmer's editor. I wonder what sort of team size is behind it, and how long microsoft will keep funding that team on something that doesn't earn them any money. I also wonder what the end game is with respect to the regular visual studio, because as VS code picks up plugins and features it is covering more and more of the IDE feature space, and eventually the diffe…

VS code is a snack for Linux and Mac developers. It is intended to lure those people to the Microsoft (and Azure) platform. They are able to do it so well, so quickly because Windows Visual Studio has much of that functionality already in it. I suspect VSCode, just like NETCore will become their standard. I'm sure they have a path to switchover. They are banking on Azure now, so anything that pulls people to Azure is…

"They are able to do it so well, so quickly because Windows Visual Studio has much of that functionality already in it." I don't believe anything is shared between Visual Studio and VS Code except the branding (Microsoft playing to their traditional strengths in confusing marketing). Where I do agree is that VS Code drew on a lot of the institutional expertise and design learning from the folks who develop Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. Perhaps also there are shared editor components across VS Code and VS Online, I'm not sure - but again this is _not_ the same editor as Visual Studio's (again with the confusing branding).

(Disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but not on VS, VS Code, VS Online or VS Floor Wax.)

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