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posted by janrinok on Sunday May 06 2018, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-a-name? dept.

The signs are undeniable at this point.

The very first sign was when Microsoft refused to port Visual Studio (VS) to 64 bit. While VS is indeed a large codebase, MS had no qualms doing the same for Microsoft Office. The fact that they no longer want to invest too much resources into it should point to the fact Visual Studio is very much in maintenance mode now.

Visual Studio was always paid software. But in 2014 MS introduced the Community Edition. The only real difference between it and the Pro (paid) version is the 'Code Lens' feature. Another sign that MS no longer sees Visual Studio as driving any meaningful revenue.

[...] Visual Studio Code continues to release enhancements every single month, moving at a fast pace. Compare that to Visual Studio Pro, whose development seems pretty much only about updating its integration of the various Language Services to the latest version.

With Microsoft's focus shifting from Windows to Azure, it is but natural that they no longer want an IDE that runs only on Windows. Thus comes in VS Code, a free, cross platform IDE that supports all modern languages.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 07 2018, @12:19AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday May 07 2018, @12:19AM (#676492)

    And I wrote PalmOS apps on Windows with CW in the late 1990s.

    QtCreator was lame in the extreme in 2006, and started coming into its own around 2010 - write Windows, Mac and Linux native apps on any of those platforms - code once, run anywhere. I haven't tried to use it for mobile apps yet, last time I looked (2013ish) it was pretty lame for mobile, but they've been working on it, I assume it's greatly improved by now - I just don't have a professional need for mobile apps at the moment.

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