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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. Linus Wins by wile_e8 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

    -- Linus Torvalds

  2. Could be good. by Zarjazz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm no fan of M$, far from it, but despite that I'll be the first to admit that Visual Studio has always been a very good product. You can tell those that write the IDE also use it themselves and know what developers need / want. So a cross platform version is certainly interesting.

  3. The editor can't load arbitrary binary files by snikulin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So for certain developers like me CodeWritght is still alive

  4. Microsoft and cross platform development? by DougPaulson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Microsoft is still extending its efforts into cross platform development" after spending much effort on making everything Windows only.

    "It was creating a situation where pure 100% Java applications would look just as good as pure Windows applications which we have to avoid." ref

    "possible emergence of a set of API's and underlying system software that lead to lesser or no role for Windows" ref

    "How do we wrest control of Java away from Sun?" ref

    "This summer we're going to totally divorce Sun" ref