Microsoft Continues Porting Visual C++ To Linux (microsoft.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader Billly Gates shared some news from Microsoft's Visual C++ blog: Visual Studio 2017 now lets developers write C++ code for Linux desktops, servers, and other devices without an extension, targeting specific architectures, including ARM: Visual Studio will automatically copy and remotely build your sources and can launch your application with the debugger... Today Visual Studio only supports building remotely on the Linux target machine. It is not limited to specific Linux distros, but we do have dependencies on the presence of some tools. Specifically, we need openssh-server, g++, gdb and gdbserver.

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Re:Microsoft, can you fix Linux?

[phantomfive]

The only advantage of Windows over Linux is that the drivers mostly work. And that's not because of anything Microsoft has done, it's entirely the doing of the device manufacturers.