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Microsoft gives up on Windows, moves Visual Studio to Linux.

Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
edited 2015-05-03 03:22 in General Discussion
Well not exactly. Just being provocative.

They recently released "Visual Studio Code" an IDE that actually works on Mac and Linux.

https://code.visualstudio.com

Seems to make use of an awful lot of open source software: node.js, less, sass, git, electron...

This and the recent invasion of the Raspberry Pi ecosystem by MS https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=105 is making me feel very queasy.

Comments

  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    edited 2015-05-02 01:14
    If that makes you feel queasy, you probably do not want to stumble across what they plan for .NET !!
  • jmgjmg Posts: 15,173
    edited 2015-05-02 01:20
    This bit has me lost ...

    ["
    Streamlined + Powerful

    Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.
    "]

    They talk about a Integrated Debugging Environment (editor + code assistance + navigation + debug), and then say,
    'without the need for a full IDE' ? Maybe the young ones (or marketing copy writers ?) have no idea what IDE means ?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-02 01:35
    OK, jmg, I'll hold my nose. Any links to what MS plans for .NET? Last I heard they had released and open source run time and/or libs and/or compilers for it.

    I think what they mean by "without the need for a full IDE" is that they had to discard most of Visual Studio as it is Windows only code that they cannot get to run cross-platform. Then cobble together a bunch open source projects and a bit of their own code to make this thing.

    What I find amazing is that the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable organization, is providing free support and advertising for an extremely wealthy multi-national corporation.

    Effectively if you make a donation to the RPF, by buying a Pi for example, then you are helping promote MS's attempt to own the Internet of Things.
  • OppaErichOppaErich Posts: 48
    edited 2015-05-02 03:45
    An error occurred while extracting files

    Lots of 0 byte size files. Looks like they need to learn packaging first... :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-02 04:22
    I was kind of wondering if I should checkout the Win 10 for IdioTs thing just to we what we are up against.

    Seems though that we need to be running some cutting edge version of Windows 10 in order to install it. Which would mean having to set up Virtual Box to run it...
  • OppaErichOppaErich Posts: 48
    edited 2015-05-03 03:22
    OppaErich wrote: »
    Looks like they need to learn packaging first... :)
    Turned out to be Nautilus' fault. Plain command line unzip did the job, the archive is fine.
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