Visual Studio Code April 2017 • Hacker News Board

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by isaac_is_goat » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:05 PM UTC

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 think this is true at all. I don't think VSCode has any Visual Studio code in it at all, but that's probably why they are able to be so nimble with it - no legacy cruft.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by moondev » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

I love the native osx tabs for multiple windows, but I hate the color and size they are. Guess there's nothing that can be done about that though.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by beagle3 » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

eric_b wrote: post #14

This is how you write release notes. This is the only project where I routinely read the release notes "cover to cover" every month. Great job!

I agree that this is an excellent way to write release notes; The only project that does better in my opinion is Dolphin: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by mattbierner » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

isaac_is_goat wrote: post #21

Clubber wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 think this is true at all. I don't think VSCode has any Visual Studio code in it at all, but that's probably why they are able to be so nimble with it - no legacy cruft.

I work on VS Code. You are correct; the core VS Code editor does not share code with regular Visual Studio. However many tools and libraries are shared between the two. TypeScript and JavaScript language support for example is powered by the same TypeScript library in both VS and VS Code, and this library also is used by Atom, Sublime, and many other tools.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by mattbierner » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:28 PM UTC

remyp wrote: post #5

I love VS Code, but is anyone else getting a lot of flickering/redraws (particularly around the cursor) on OSX since the update?

Hmm, I haven't this on 10.11 or 10.12. Can you please file a bug with some screenshots/captures so that we can investigate: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by beagle3 » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:28 PM UTC

Just a small reminder to privacy conscious people: VSCode comes with telemetry on by default[0], and you might like to turn it off. Also, the fact that you turn it off gets reported to microsoft[1] (or at least did).

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40451596/visual-studio-co...

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by rawland » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:29 PM UTC

bsharitt wrote: post #17

I tried to like Atom for a long time, but it was always just so sluggish. VSCode seems a lot faster and I keep finding my self going back and forth between it and vim.

Same here.

There is an OpenVim Plugin to CtrlP into gvim.

  :! code %

When I spawned vim first.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by ArloL » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:49 PM UTC

extra88 wrote: post #16

ArloL wrote: post #6

Anybody else experiencing problems in Safari 10.1? http://imgur.com/deflq41

Not me (on Sierra 10.12.4).

Thanks for the reply. It actually happened again on another site. Just started experiencing it there. Restarted browser. No problems. shrug Thanks again.

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by remyp » Thu, May 04, 2017, 9:52 PM UTC

mattbierner wrote: post #25

remyp wrote: post #5

I love VS Code, but is anyone else getting a lot of flickering/redraws (particularly around the cursor) on OSX since the update?

Hmm, I haven't this on 10.11 or 10.12. Can you please file a bug with some screenshots/captures so that we can investigate: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/new

No problem, here ya go: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/25934

Thanks for everything you do!

Re: Visual Studio Code April 2017

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Post by Clubber » Thu, May 04, 2017, 11:07 PM UTC

ppog wrote: post #20

Clubber wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Stu…

I didn't mean to imply the code was the same or the editor was the same, but that the VSCode team have access to the original source code for all the compiler and intellisense algorithms that were already written, tuned and figured out.