Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor

Post by artmageddon » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #131

nothrabannosir wrote: post #56

Wow. 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.…

Windows is becoming irrelevant, Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough', and worst of all, Microsoft completely missed the boat on mobile. The Microsoft of old would have died out eventually. What we are seeing is not something you see often - a behemoth of a company doing a 'pivot'. What would you do remain relevant in the face of the majority of the internet services no…

Post by emodendroket » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:39 PM UTC

artmageddon wrote: post #271

fragmede wrote: post #131

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Windows is becoming irrelevant, Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough', and worst of all, Microsoft completely missed the boat on mobile. The Microsoft of old would have died out eventually. What we are seeing is not something you see often - a behemoth of a company doing a 'pivot'. What would you do remain relevant in the face of the majority of the internet services no…

> Microsoft Office is being supplanted by Google Docs being both free and 'good enough' I like Google Docs as much as the next guy or girl, but I find this hard to believe when we had to end a meeting several minutes into it when the Google Doc displayed an http-500-style error when trying to load a spreadsheet.

Post by emodendroket » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:40 PM UTC

tracker1 wrote: post #172

brador wrote: post #136

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A behemoth doing a pivot, but a pivot to what? And how are they going to monitize it?

Pivoting to becoming more service oriented. Azure/Office365 are their next generation core. Azure as a development target, which pragmatically makes sense as companies with Windows services/apps move to the cloud. And Office365 in the same vein. Not to mention them extending office to other platforms, which combined with Office365 (email) makes a lot of sense. All of that said, outlook integration to office365 is act…

Post by joshuapants » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:40 PM UTC

guelo wrote: post #173

keithwarren wrote: post #24

tldr; light weight Visual Studio for OSX/Windows/Linux with support for dozens of languages, intellisense (autocomplete), refactoring, debugging (yes, real debugging), git integration and it is free

"Support for" maybe, but it's mainly meant for Javascript/HTML.

Post by emodendroket » Wed, Apr 29, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

gbl08ma wrote: post #133

The description says it's lightweight, but on my machine it uses over 200 MB of RAM with no files open, and appears to be a Chromium-based thing, much like Atom (as others pointed out, it's based on Electron). Meanwhile, Sublime Text is using less than 100 MB of RAM with dozens of files open, some of them quite big. Visual Studio tends to use less memory than this, too. If "the language services [Microsoft] built for…