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Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code (visualstudio.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the temperatures-in-hell-continue-to-drop dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced code editing software Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, pushed out .NET Core 5 and ASP.NET 5 release candidates, unveiled Visual Studio cloud subscriptions, debuted the Visual Studio Marketplace, and a lot more. The source for Visual Studio Code is available at GitHub under the MIT license. They've also released an extension (preview) for Visual Studio that facilitates code debugging on Linux.

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  1. Could we quit with the stupid conf names? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >> Connect();

    Could we please quit with the stupid punctuation in conference names? It just messes with search engines, folder structures, etc. Just call this "VScon" and everyone will get the message that this is for Microsoft developers using Visual Studio.

  2. Re:Linux port now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    emacs

  3. Re:VS CODE ! = Visual Studio by sosume · · Score: 4, Insightful

    VS Code is not a web-based, but a filesystem or git based code editor and debugger with support for .net, node.js and other language stacks. Somewhere between Sublime Text and Sharpdevelop.

  4. Re:Why? why now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not one statement in the above rant is true or apropos the actual fucking subject.

  5. They ran out of their own? by chmod+a+x+mojo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can now contribute to VS Code:
    Submit bugs and help us verify fixes as they are checked in.
    Review the source code changes.
    Contribute bug fixes through pull requests.
    Update and add to the documentation.

    Anyways, joking aside, it's cool that stuff is being released in a more open way than it was traditionally with Microsoft. Hopefully they will keep up the trend and not revert to their old ways.

    --
    To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password!
  6. Re:Linux port now by Dr_Barnowl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's in the same space as other editors-made-of-browser-technology as Komodo and Atom ; it's not a full version of Visual Studio.

    My preference in that space is still Komodo Edit ; it has the benefit of maturity. Atom has that liveliness that new projects do. VSC? Not sure how it will attract the community it needs to thrive.