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Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by chillee »

hizanberg wrote: post #84
Tyriar wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi brudgers, I'm on the VS Code team and I look after most of the Linux related stuff. I feel your pain as I've been updating my Insiders build nearly every day for the past 12 months. When you install this version, an apt repo and signing key will automatically be registered in your system which will enable auto-updates from here on. You can also install the repo manually if you want[1]. I've created an issue to fol…

You guys are shipping consistently impressively. How many people are on the VS Code team?

I remember reading somewhere that it's 10-12.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by minimaxir »

minimaxir wrote: post #7

Copy Syntax Highlight is huge. Years ago, I had written a utility to invoke syntax highlighting from text sources for use in PowerPoint presentations and Photoshop editing ( https://github.com/minimaxir/copy-syntax-highlight-osx/ ); I am very happy it is now obsolete.

Tested with VS Code 1.10 and hit a snag. On macOS, copying w/ syntax highlight from VS Code -> Mail works, but copying from VS Code -> Keynote or VS Code -> Pixelmator does not.

However. VS Code -> Mail -> Keynote and VS Code -> Mail -> Pixelmator both work. Rich text is funny.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by philliphaydon »

k__ wrote: post #44
rchowe wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source projects like TypeScript and .NET Core act as a funnel to drive people to Azure. I also think that they are trying to position .NET Core as a viable competitor to Java, for which they need decent cross-platform tooling.

True. I have to admit, since I switched from Atom to VSCode, I'm also re-evaluating other Microsoft products. I even bought a copy of Win10 (but it wasn't as good as I hoped, haha). Also, I worked with a few DevOps people who really hated AWS usability and some of them said Azure should be much better.

Azure goes through ups and downs. It can be really good, and also really shitty.

The transition of Classic to ARM (Azure Resource Manager) made me drop Azure for AWS. Now ARM is more or less stable so there's no issues, but damn when they started it was complicated.

But in terms of UI...

GCE > AWS > Azure.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by Clubber »

mycall wrote: post #98

Visual Studio Code is an oxymoron -- there isn't anything visual about it. "Visual" in Visual Studio use to mean UI widgets you can drop onto a form or some layout grid.

I think they went to the "visual" moniker when IDEs started to become GUI (Windows vs DOS) based. It's been years, but I remember having to position controls using coordinates in code when tinkering with Visual C++. It certainly didn't have drag and drop like Visual Basic did at the time.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by altern8tif »

mycall wrote: post #98

Visual Studio Code is an oxymoron -- there isn't anything visual about it. "Visual" in Visual Studio use to mean UI widgets you can drop onto a form or some layout grid.

I guess it made sense to keep the brand since people do associate it with Microsoft. Like how iTunes ain't really all about tunes anymore.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by nihonde »

coldtea wrote: post #75

Is it just for me, or did the 1.10 update killed other people's custom user settings too? (OS X)

Yes, the update clipped some of my settings. I had to consult my project-level settings to remember what they were. Also OSX.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by Rapzid »

coldtea wrote: post #77
Dangeranger wrote: post #15

What is the long term value to Microsoft for VS Code? It is definitely improving their image within the web development community, and I imagine it is also winning them favor with Go developers. Have people noticed a network effect after using VS Code? Are you getting sucked into the rest of the MS ecosystem at all?

> and I imagine it is also winning them favor with Go developers. All 10 of them? Sorry, but to think it's some kind of ploy for Go developers specifically does not really compute. It might very well be a "goodwill" project, but Go devs are insignificant compared to the web developer community at large.

In volume perhaps.

One of the most influential open source projects of recent times is Docker. Docker is written in go. MS has gotten behind docker.

Another, kubernetes.

I'm not saying this influenced Visual Studio code. But to say Go devs are insignificant is a little out of touch.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by kristianp »

rchowe wrote: post #22
Dangeranger wrote: post #15

What is the long term value to Microsoft for VS Code? It is definitely improving their image within the web development community, and I imagine it is also winning them favor with Go developers. Have people noticed a network effect after using VS Code? Are you getting sucked into the rest of the MS ecosystem at all?

Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source projects like TypeScript and .NET Core act as a funnel to drive people to Azure. I also think that they are trying to position .NET Core as a viable competitor to Java, for which they need decent cross-platform tooling.

Yes the .Net Core tooling with the Nuget integration on non-windows platforms would be the main reason Code exists.

As for go, GoSublime is pretty good, I'm hesitant to go to a javascript based editor when Sublime offers such good go support.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by Rapzid »

brudgers wrote: post #21

I think VS Code is pretty awesome. But I stopped using it because the monthly update experience on Ubuntu Linux pretty much sucks...by which I mean it mirrors the Windows update experience. One day I sit down to work and it's time to update and I lose fifteen or twenty minutes plus flow state going through the process (o.k. Windows with multiple reboots is actually noticeably worse often times (like just earlier this…

I ran VS Code for over a year on Ubuntu. Granted downloading and installing a deb is not as smooth as the OSX click to upgrade, however I've very curious as to what caused 15-20 minute upgrade times for you.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.10

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Post by inertial »

Zaheer wrote: post #10

VSCode team is killing it! Literally every month its tangibly making the product better. I still use Sublime occasionally on really large files as its performance is so good but for most things VSCode is my go-to!

Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN [1].

How does it compare in terms of memory usage w.r.t sublime ? I've a sublime project open for months that has never had any impact on system performance and it stays within 70MB RAM. Is VS Code even close ?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=visual%20studio%20code&sort=by...

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