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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.

3 of 160 comments (clear)

  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.

  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 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.