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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code Preview For Linux, OS X, and Windows

Posted by Soulskill on from the of-proof-and-pudding dept.

ClockEndGooner writes: Microsoft is still extending its efforts into cross platform development with the release of a preview edition of Visual Studio Code, "a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows." Derived from its Monaco editor for Visual Studio Online, the initial release includes rich code assistance and navigation for JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, ASP.NET 5, C# and many others.

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  1. Re:Linus Wins by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Microsoft ends up making money doing applications for Linux, it means that Microsoft has won, as well.

    The nice thing about this is that there doesn't have to be a losing party.

  2. Re:Linus Wins by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Granted, they are not writing apps for it (yet)

    Well, except for all these.