Community Ports 'Visual Studio Code' To Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi (infoworld.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:34AM from the IDE-ideas dept.

An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: A community build project led by developer Jay Rodgers is making Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's lightweight source code editor, available for Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi boards, and other devices based on 32-bit or 64-bit ARM processors. Supporting Linux and Chrome OS as well as the DEB (Debian) and RPM package formats, the automated builds of Visual Studio Code are intended for less-common platforms that might not otherwise receive them. Obvious beneficiaries will be IoT developers focused on ARM devices -- and the Raspberry Pi in particular -- who will find it helpful to have the editor directly on the device they're programming against... Rodgers said the lure of Visual Studio Code for him was its user-friendly interface, making it approachable for new users.

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Re:What a fucking waste of time! by JustNiz · 2017-06-18 10:23 · Score: 1, Troll

Its because Microsoft's entire playbook still only contains multiple variations of embrace/extend/extinguish.
People that are still being fooled by Microsoft (i.e. most purchasing managers) won't understand this so won't actually know that it isn't what it pretends to be, but will think this must be a good thing in some general way.