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Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code (visualstudio.com)
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.
Just to avoid any confusion: VS Code is not Visual Studio, VS Code is a web-based code editor.
>> 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.
It already runs on Linux.
emacs
No it isn't, they both share the same framework but one is not derived from the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Now we can have/need the .NET 3, 4, 4.5 and 5 runtimes all on the same machine, meaning monthly patches will take another half-hour.
.NET runtimes recompile and optimize for the environment they're installed on and that's a Good Thing, but as someone who supports a lot of small & medium business who can't justify WSUS or similar, .NET is - by far - the thing I dread seeing not yet applied to a customer's machine. One new runtime a decade would be just fine by me.
I get it.
Yes, there's supposed to be a certain degree of backwards-compatibility, but in practice that degree is "not enough that installing Product X doesn't frequently force you to install runtime Y".
"Oh no... he found the
If it's not GPL'ed, it's not open source. And we all know what abhorrence MS harbors for GPL...
The Open Source Initiative has certified the MIT license as a valid open source license. Look I'm not a huge MS fan either, but they are using a real OSS license here. Just because MIT isn't copyleft doesn't mean its not OSS.
Not one statement in the above rant is true or apropos the actual fucking subject.
> If it's not GPL'ed, it's not open source
Nope. Open source implies the source that comprises the entirety of the application is available to be inspected. Terms of that access are orthogonal to the phrase, although RMS would insist it must be free as in beer, philosophically or it isn't "open".
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They use tabs instead of spaces!
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.
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First, you do realize .Net is also garbage collected right? Secondly Elipse and Netbeans are excellent and mature IDEs that support dozens of languages and platforms.
The whole 'Java is slow' meme is at least a 15 years passe, try something new.
It already runs on Linux.
Indeed it does.
Color me bemused. I didn't know.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.
And the MIT license is GPL compatible, so you're welcome to add your own GPL parts and release your improved version under GPL.