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Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 2) by sgleysti on Monday May 07 2018, @03:28AM

    by sgleysti (56) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 07 2018, @03:28AM (#676544)

    Right. Visual Studio Community has essentially the same functionality as Visual Studio Pro. The license is somewhat restrictive: Last I looked, you could only use Community if 5 or fewer devs at your company were using it, or for non-commercial/open source projects.

    Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/ [visualstudio.com]) is just a text editor. It doesn't have any compilers, or even a build system that I'm aware of. For example, the page https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp [visualstudio.com] reports

    If you just want a lightweight tool to edit your C++ files, Visual Studio Code is a great choice but if you want the best possible experience for your existing Visual C++ projects or debugging on Windows, we recommend you use a version of the Visual Studio IDE such as Visual Studio Community.

    That said, I actually really like Visual Studio Code. I use it to develop HTML/JavaScript applications, mostly calculators/solvers for various electronics circuits. At my last job, I used Visual Studio Community (well, VC++ and nmake) to compile some numerical software that I wrote in C++ because the resultant executables were much more performant than those produced by MinGW. I definitely prefer Visual Studio to Eclipse for C++ development on windows. On linux, I'll use Makefiles and a text editor.

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