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Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by AsyncAwait »

I am surprised at the amount of semi-negative comments here. Yes, some features are yet to be implemented, (it's still a fairly young project and you can always follow GitHub issues on progress), but for an Electron app, it's surprisingly fast and capable.

The Microsoft-developed Go plugin makes it the best Go IDE out there, the devs, (Ramya Rao etc.) are super responsive and really trying to resolve issues quickly.

If you haven't tried it yet, I think you really should and if you have found a problem, open an issue at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode so the devs know about it, complaining doesn't help making it better. They generally release every month, so it will get fixed sooner rather than later.

P.S. Kudos to the team & contributors for another awesome release!

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by komali2 »

whyileft wrote: post #40
microtonal wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any proof that it is astroturfing and not just genuine enthusiasm? I am almost a lifelong vi user, but have been using Visual Studio Code last few months because it's Rust experience is smooth. (Though Emacs seems to do well as well.)

Just that the sentiment scores of comments blow everything else out of the water. Haven't done one in a month or two though.

People like a good product.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by Joeri »

christophilus wrote: post #30

VSCode really does improve with each release, and the monthly cycle is just about the perfect pace. This is a great example of how to run an OSS project. I wonder how much Microsoft spends on it each month, and what value they see in it? Is it just a marketing expense? e.g. They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?

VS Code is a web dev IDE. Microsoft has lost the mobile platform wars and pushing the web is a way of countering that. Plus, web and azure do go hand-in-hand, as you point out.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by komali2 »

whyileft wrote: post #39
vvanders wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe it's a good product? Occam's Razor and all that.

This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Almost every single product on HN that makes it to the front page is full of flamewars and grumps. I should post the sentiment scores. Its a serious outlier.

The sentiment scores are somewhat pointless, I feel. If you're concerned about astroturfing, all post history on this site is public. You can click a user's username to browse their comments. Bots are pretty obvious, I do this on reddit quite often.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by arkitaip »

whyileft wrote: post #32

Or maybe you are part of VSCode's epic astroturfing campaign? Sorry, not saying you are but man MS is guerilla marketing VSCode like I've never seen in an opensource developer product.

I guess I am one of those astro turfers too because VS Code is probably one of the best editors for Windows right now.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by grandalf »

As an emacs user, it's interesting to watch the race of open source extensible editors like Atom and VSCode.

I still haven't been tempted to leave emacs, but it's great to see so much progress in the ecosystem.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by Analemma_ »

whyileft wrote: post #39
vvanders wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe it's a good product? Occam's Razor and all that.

This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Almost every single product on HN that makes it to the front page is full of flamewars and grumps. I should post the sentiment scores. Its a serious outlier.

Atom and Dolphin also get near-unanimous praise when they come up. It's not exclusive to VSC.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by beachy »

whyileft wrote: post #39
vvanders wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or maybe it's a good product? Occam's Razor and all that.

This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Almost every single product on HN that makes it to the front page is full of flamewars and grumps. I should post the sentiment scores. Its a serious outlier.

We all love a redemption story.

Over the decades I've gone through a personal journey of discovery, astonishment, deep affection, surprise, disappointment and downright hatred with respect to Microsoft, now transitioning to wary hopefulness.

We all want competition in the marketplace, so I like to see them visibly earning their way back into developer affections and leaving their dickish ways behind them.

Re: Visual Studio Code 1.9

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Post by santaclaus »

Joeri wrote: post #43
christophilus wrote: post #30

VSCode really does improve with each release, and the monthly cycle is just about the perfect pace. This is a great example of how to run an OSS project. I wonder how much Microsoft spends on it each month, and what value they see in it? Is it just a marketing expense? e.g. They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?

VS Code is a web dev IDE. Microsoft has lost the mobile platform wars and pushing the web is a way of countering that. Plus, web and azure do go hand-in-hand, as you point out.

Nothing in VS Code is terribly web specific. I've been using it for C++ for which it works swimmingly.
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