Microsoft ppls please release a windows phone emulator for OS X and Linux. You will make my year if I don't have to dual boot anymore :)
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
#102Ever 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…
I must agree with even though I don't want to. Microsoft seems to legitimately changing its behavior.
Personally, I still want more. An open source editor would have been nice. Many good text editors are open source Vim, Emacs, Atom, Notepad++ entering this area with less community seems like an unneeded difficulty.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#103Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in? Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else. But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba.…
Simply the same as usual: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguis...
I seriously can't get too excited about MSFT technologies because
- they have an history of discarding products on a whim,
- playing the strategic game and stifling smaller competitors,
- having a new CEO doesn't mean it's a new company. The people are still there, there are still fragmentation and silos, and the attitude.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#104This is awesome. A tolerable IDE for linux. From microsoft, of all companies. Awesome.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#105Seems like it has lots of potential. The product/download site should be at http://code.visualstudio.com when it goes live later today (it's currently showing a login page).
Download works from here.
The download worked for me, but the zip archive was corrupted, so I didn't even get a chance to try it out on linux (ubuntu 12.04)
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#106The market needs a superb JavaScript IDE. So far, IntelliJ is the leading out there but there needs to be more competition :).
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#107Ever 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…
Those products were under development in Ballmer's time but it seems Satya took the credits.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#108Cross platform developers tools by Microsoft! Great news! MS has some of the best developer tools out there. In my opinion, the only downside has been the dependency on the Windows platform. As a developer, I feel much more comfortable in a Unix environment. This move was unthinkable a decade ago. I'm very glad to see MS moving in this direction. Just because of this announcement I want to start playing with TypeScri…
This move was very thinkable a decade ago. Even two decades. In fact, a good example from 1995:
From Wikipedia: The strategy and phrase "embrace, extend and extinguish", was first introduced in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial when the vice president of Intel, Steven McGeady, testified[8] that Microsoft vice president Paul Maritz used the phrase in a 1995 meeting with Intel to describe Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguis...
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#109Ever 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…
I must agree with even though I don't want to. Microsoft seems to legitimately changing its behavior. Personally, I still want more. An open source editor would have been nice. Many good text editors are open source Vim, Emacs, Atom, Notepad++ entering this area with less community seems like an unneeded difficulty.
This editor is built on Atom.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#110I'd just like to point out that this is simply a re-branded version of Atom.io, with additional plugins.