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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. VS CODE ! = Visual Studio by jlp2097 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to avoid any confusion: VS Code is not Visual Studio, VS Code is a web-based code editor.

    1. 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.

    2. Re:VS CODE ! = Visual Studio by idontgno · · Score: 4, Informative

      I suspect the confusion arises because TFA (last link in TFS) says that

      The free and cross-platform Chromium-based code editor Visual Studio Code is being open sourced today.

      (Emphasis added)

      "Chromium-based" means it's based on a web browser engine, but that doesn't make it web-based. Its backside could easily be file- or Git-based, as you say.

      Very interesting, and maybe confusing, move by Microsoft.

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  2. 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.

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

      Try a Google search for "Connect();" and see what happens. ("Microsoft Connect Conference" ain't even on the first page.)

    2. Re:Could we quit with the stupid conf names? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Doesn't even show up on Bing. Well well well.

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

    emacs

  4. Re:Visual Studio "in name only" by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Informative

    No it isn't, they both share the same framework but one is not derived from the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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  5. Re:If it's not GPL by nateman1352 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  6. so disappointing! by postmortem · · Score: 4, Funny

    They use tabs instead of spaces!

  7. 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.