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posted by janrinok on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the head-in-the-cloud dept.

MS Releases "Visual Studio Code" - a Slim Cross Platform Code Editor

Microsoft appears like they may actually be starting to get serious about cross platform support. Their new slim code editor for developing cloud applications supports both OS X and Linux, as well as Windows.

At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows. The application is still officially in preview, but you can now download it here (if this link isn’t live yet, give it a few more minutes and then try again).

This marks the first time that Microsoft offers developers a true cross-platform code editor. The full Visual Studio is still Windows-only, but today’s announcement shows the company’s commitment to supporting other platforms.

From the Techcrunch article:

Today’s announcement will surely come as a surprise to many. It does, however, fit in well with the direction the company’s developer group has been on for quite a while now, be that the open sourcing of .NET Core (and taking that platform cross-platform) or the launch of the free Visual Studio Community edition.

Another Publicity Stunt from MSFT: "Visual Studio Code"

Roy Schestowitz at TechRights reports "Visual Studio Code": Not News, Not Free, Not Open Source

Another publicity stunt from Microsoft, this time going under the name "Visual Studio Code", which is basically proprietary lock-in

Despite an openwashing campaign and an effort to deceive the public (as chronicled here before), Visual Studio is (and will remain) proprietary. There is currently yet another PR blitz from Microsoft, which at the moment is trying to openwash it and pretend that it's "news" (it's not, it goes back to last year).

Sadly, some FOSS proponents have already fallen for it and Phoronix is doing marketing for Microsoft. This is not really news and it's not even a surprise. It's just some publicity stunt which got Microsoft boosters and Microsoft-friendly sites on board.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday May 01 2015, @01:51PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday May 01 2015, @01:51PM (#177462)

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Saturday May 02 2015, @12:49AM

    by Marand (1081) on Saturday May 02 2015, @12:49AM (#177700) Journal

    Unfortunately, it looks like the AC was right after all; it just took the angry downmodders a day or so to either notice me or get mod points. Or they waited a day hoping nobody else will come along and up-mod me again, maybe.

    My longer comment even got hit with a troll mod, for fuck's sake. How was that trolling? I stated my view, followed it up with elaboration on why I said it, and even presented thoughts on how I thought different outcomes would play out. The thin-skinned folk need to figure out this isn't tumblr, and that "trolling" actually means something more substantial than "made a statement that does not conform to my world view" and/or "boohoo my feels". Or it used to, at least.