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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.
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Thursday April 30 2015, @11:43PM
Well, I installed it, but as editors go, its pretty lame and limited.
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Its a stand alone editor, not a particularly intuitive one, not better than anything that comes free on Linux.
See the basics without having to install it: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/codebasics [visualstudio.com]
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday May 01 2015, @05:54AM
That's disappointing. I have no love for MS, but I saw this and had hoped it would be something noteworthy.
As a confession, I've made things in C# before and kind of liked it. I mean, now, I use almost exclusively python and java, but it's just an editor? Not a compiler too? It looks like it depends on mono, is that right?
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(Score: 1) by mtrycz on Friday May 01 2015, @09:26AM
So the message here is "here, have this half-assed editor and see how much open we are?".
Thanks for the insights. I was about to give it a try, but I have more important things to do now.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday May 01 2015, @11:11AM
Yeah, pretty much any editor is at least as good or better. I uninstalled it.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Friday May 01 2015, @12:01PM
But isn't this exactly what the world needs - another editor?