There's a lot more info on it in its documentation here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs Looks interesting, but I don't really see much that differentiates it from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, etc. Also the language support is kinda barebones--no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust? Only intellisense for Javascript and web stuff? Debugging only for Node.js?
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
#122what am i missing here? a look at their TOS:
"The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. For this pre-release version, users cannot opt out of data collection. Some features in the software may enable collection of data from users of applications you develop using the software."
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Looks like it just uses Electron.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#124I'm curious about how the editor itself was built. Is it itself written with cross-platform .NET? And if so, what UI library? Edit: Got my answer. Electron and TypeScript: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968
Can access without school or work account, I don't know how to get this.
Get it from https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#125There's a lot more info on it in its documentation here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs Looks interesting, but I don't really see much that differentiates it from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, etc. Also the language support is kinda barebones--no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust? Only intellisense for Javascript and web stuff? Debugging only for Node.js?
no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust?
surely you jest ;)
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 strat…
Even when Microsoft 'Embraced and Extended' Java, it was only on the Windows platform. It was not cross -platform. The whole point of that methodology wasn't to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java, but to make sure that everyone was using Microsoft-flavoured Java on the Microsoft Windows platform.
It was not cross-platform
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#127Ever 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…
The push to open source started under Ballmer and has been gaining momentum the past few years. You saw some of the very early open source work debut when Scott Guthrie open sourced ASP.NET MVC 2 in 2010.
He (Guthrie) blogged a few times about evangelizing open source in Microsoft, and given today's news, he gained quite a bit of traction over the years. It also helped that ASP.NET MVC is a pretty sold web framework too.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#128There's a lot more info on it in its documentation here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs Looks interesting, but I don't really see much that differentiates it from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, etc. Also the language support is kinda barebones--no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust? Only intellisense for Javascript and web stuff? Debugging only for Node.js?
Interestingly, Atom is already available on MS, OSX, and linux today. They need to make it competitive and updated with the current Atom to be popular. On the other hand, this gives Atom some good competition and impetus to improvement, and I already like Atom.
Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#129I'm curious about how the editor itself was built. Is it itself written with cross-platform .NET? And if so, what UI library? Edit: Got my answer. Electron and TypeScript: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/593454574297427968
Can access without school or work account, I don't know how to get this.
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Re: Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor
#130There's a lot more info on it in its documentation here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs Looks interesting, but I don't really see much that differentiates it from Atom, Sublime, Brackets, etc. Also the language support is kinda barebones--no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust? Only intellisense for Javascript and web stuff? Debugging only for Node.js?
no syntax highlighting for Go or Rust? surely you jest ;)
Its there, just not advertised.