Microsoft Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows
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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.
“A lot of people use Windows as their development environment, but we are also seeing a lot of people on Linux and Mac,” S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate VP of its developer division, told me earlier this week. “Instead of making them go to Windows, we want to meet them where they are.” Developers on these platforms are also often perfectly happy with using a regular code editor like Sublime Text instead of a full IDE like Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Code offers developers built-in support for multiple languages and as Microsoft noted in today’s Build keynote, the editor will feature rich code assistance and navigation for all of these languages. JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js and ASP.NET 5 developers will also get a set of additional tools.
What do LQ members think of the new Microsoft Visual Studio Code and the fact that Microsoft is including Linux support out of the gate for this product?
With all their effort to open source their .Net environment this makes sense. The next logical step of course would be to port the complete Visual Studio, but it may be to tied to Windows only technology to actually do that.
I'm looking forward to seeing how easy it is to set it up to use code completion in C++. I currently use vim with the YouCompleteMe plugin, and that requires you to set up a per-project configuration file with the compiler flags (like -I and -std=c++11) that the project needs.
By downloading and using Visual Studio Code, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement for Visual Studio Code. When this tool crashes, we automatically collect crash dumps so we can figure out what went wrong. If you don't want to send your crash dumps to Microsoft, don't install this tool.
If you then read the license terms, you soon see that the same old Microsoft arrogance is in play. Visual Studio is nice for the Windows platform, but pretending that it can be relevant on alternative platforms is a sad joke. A better expression of good faith would be for Microsoft to acknowledge the existence of the ext4 file system and provide support, or at least provide a disk partitioning tool that allowed a user to do what they desire, rather than what Microsoft begrudgingly allows.
Also, it will cost you US$5.00 to get the source code for the third party open source components, but you are not allowed to
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reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software except, and solely to the extent: (i) permitted by applicable law, despite this limitation; or (ii) required to debug changes to any libraries licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License which are included with and linked to by the software;
This just looks like more Microsoft flailing in the face of shrinking market share.
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