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VSC has revolutionized how I code on Linux. Thank you, Microsoft!

corporate shill /s

I'm actually a pretty hard core Linux user who avoids M'soft products when possible, but it's hard to deny I good IDE when I see one. I've never been able to navigate emacs/vim with ease, and sans them, I've never heard of a highly touted, Linux-friendly IDE.

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Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-text alternative instead of an IDE (was it always positioned to be just an editor?) Always great to see more options though.

It's my daily driver. It's the best TypeScript editor on OSX, and that's why I use it for.

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As an Atom user that's only dabbled with VS Code when it was announced, what are its advantages? Last time I tried Code it seemed like a fork of Atom with Microsoft branding.

There's other features, but the biggest for me is if you're writing TypeScript or C# you get first-class visual debugging support. Also the live Markdown Preview (cmd-shift-v) is pretty awesome.

You can use Split Editor and Markdown Preview to have live preview while editing.

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I really hate how MS names things. Microsoft SQL Server, or as most people call it SQL Server. I read the title to this post as Visual Studio code is now open-source - but it's not. The product some genius called Visual Studio Code has been opened. I'm really surprised Windows isn't called Microsoft Operating System, or Operating System for short.

You mean like Microsoft Disk Operating System from back in the day?

Re: Visual Studio Code is now open source

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Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-text alternative instead of an IDE (was it always positioned to be just an editor?) Always great to see more options though.

Ya, it is just and editor. I have been using it on OSX for a while now and I like it's simplicity. The git integration is also very nice.

ETA: yes it has debuggers for some languages as well, though none that I am using at the moment.

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I really hate how MS names things. Microsoft SQL Server, or as most people call it SQL Server. I read the title to this post as Visual Studio code is now open-source - but it's not. The product some genius called Visual Studio Code has been opened. I'm really surprised Windows isn't called Microsoft Operating System, or Operating System for short.

> Operating System for short.

Brilliant idea. Why not go all the way and call it OS. We could then have OS 10 from MS and OS X from Apple!

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Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-text alternative instead of an IDE (was it always positioned to be just an editor?) Always great to see more options though.

In addition to debugging NodeJS projects, there is also work on integration with Chrome and Go.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode/Debuggers

You can set breakpoints, check out the call stack, and inspect local variables.

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I really hate how MS names things. Microsoft SQL Server, or as most people call it SQL Server. I read the title to this post as Visual Studio code is now open-source - but it's not. The product some genius called Visual Studio Code has been opened. I'm really surprised Windows isn't called Microsoft Operating System, or Operating System for short.

Yes, its misleading for sure. I think `Visual Studio Code` has like 1% of features of full blown Visual Studio?

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I tried it out but too but Atom pulled me back because of its plugins and linters

VSCode is extensible now -- they are called extensions. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/#VSCode

Interesting! I see there's a LaTeX highlighter but it seems there's no compiling add-on :(

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Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-text alternative instead of an IDE (was it always positioned to be just an editor?) Always great to see more options though.

Ya, it is just and editor. I have been using it on OSX for a while now and I like it's simplicity. The git integration is also very nice. ETA: yes it has debuggers for some languages as well, though none that I am using at the moment.

One of my top requests to their team is to support rebasing (for squashing and avoiding merge commits)
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