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I'm curious why Atom gets so much crap for being an Electron app, whereas VS Code is generally praised for it's speed. Are they doing something significantly different from each other?
Just a thought but, it might just be that Atom is naturally compared with the likes of Sublime Text or gVim and VS Code is naturally compared with Visual Studio.
Is there a Debian/Ubuntu repository somewhere? They provide deb packages but I couldn't find the repo anywhere.
deb: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973 rpm: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
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The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor. It's great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting. The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 s…
I don't get the end game though, what is the strategy? Ultimately, if you end up using Linux .net core + typescript, they seem to be killing off visual studio, IIS, Windows Server, etc. For what? Azure, glorified hosting that might end up a race to the bottom vs AWS & GCE? Selling SQL server licences? I just don't get the strategy. I'm genuinely asking, where is this actually taking them apart from burning a bunch of…
Microsoft has traditionally been the one to get the hate for this because their moves were so brash in the '90s... But the other big tech companies aren't any better. Apple is a friend of open source and standards only when it happens to suit them. Google does lots of open source but they want to be the ones holding the reins at all tiems (Blink, Android, etc.) Facebook spends a lot of money on looking smart and friendly to developers so that we'd ignore the Orwellian pile of information they hold on most people. Etc.
I enjoy working in C and C++ (on Windows) using Sublime Text however I am thinking of giving VSCode a proper try. I know many people use VSCode for web related development but MS seem quite serious about improving its support for C and C++. My question is does anyone here use VSCode for C and C++? What is your setup? task files, etc?
Yes, I'm using it for C++ dev :) I'm mostly using the C/C++ extension from Microsoft, unfortunately it's still closed source. I'm developing on Linux and Windows with MSYS2. Here are my config files: https://gist.github.com/jhasse/a3898302e4f8be682d053dd5e3b4b...
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The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor. It's great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting. The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 s…
I don't get the end game though, what is the strategy? Ultimately, if you end up using Linux .net core + typescript, they seem to be killing off visual studio, IIS, Windows Server, etc. For what? Azure, glorified hosting that might end up a race to the bottom vs AWS & GCE? Selling SQL server licences? I just don't get the strategy. I'm genuinely asking, where is this actually taking them apart from burning a bunch of…
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The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor. It's great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting. The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 s…
I don't get the end game though, what is the strategy? Ultimately, if you end up using Linux .net core + typescript, they seem to be killing off visual studio, IIS, Windows Server, etc. For what? Azure, glorified hosting that might end up a race to the bottom vs AWS & GCE? Selling SQL server licences? I just don't get the strategy. I'm genuinely asking, where is this actually taking them apart from burning a bunch of…
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Atom loads plugins in the main thread, whereas VSCode runs them in a background thread. This alone makes a huge difference. More here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/our-approach
Same excuse Firefox used to always make for its slowness; it's extensions fault. In the case of Atom, it's slower without any extensions installed, in my experience.
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The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor. It's great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting. The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 s…
I don't get the end game though, what is the strategy? Ultimately, if you end up using Linux .net core + typescript, they seem to be killing off visual studio, IIS, Windows Server, etc. For what? Azure, glorified hosting that might end up a race to the bottom vs AWS & GCE? Selling SQL server licences? I just don't get the strategy. I'm genuinely asking, where is this actually taking them apart from burning a bunch of…
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The team Microsoft really seems to be invested in this free code editor. It's great strategic marketing. Making Visual Studio Code costs a fraction of what Microsoft spent on the Surface RT marketing campaign (as an example), and the benefits to their image are much more powerful and long-lasting. The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 s…
> The Microsoft brand has been completely reborn in the eyes of developers over the past few years. The lows of 2007-2010 seem a distant memory. Maybe in the eyes of some developers - for many of us who are still dependent on MS products that haven't been getting much attention (SQL Server and it's related BI tools), the lows are still getting lower. Sure, there's improvements in the overall functionality (with SQL 2…
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Typescript can actually use the types you provide in JSDoc[1] so you will see benefits simply by using VS Code in most cases. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/JSDoc-support-i...
That is interesting, I did not know that. Still, I don't want to use TypeScript for the reasons I wrote. I'm as minimalist as possible, and I don't want to use a language that changes my code to something else without any gain for me since I can write exactly what I want in ES 2015+ already. So it's just those types, and I could get them from "Flow" too and in that case keep my ES 2015+ code. Yes I know TypeScript is…