Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting
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honestly, after atom died and vscode announced it would stop supporting mac, i knew i needed a change. i found i could replace 80% of it with tmux and vim plugins, and some bash tricks. so thats where i am now. it takes commitment for sure
When did vs code announce they would stop supporting Mac?
They are mistaken. Visual Studio for Mac is being retired next year, not vscode. Not the same program...
Good good good good. We just wrote a huge batch of quick start on boarding scripts to set up new devs with a good baseline vs code configuration
How are they different ?
It's not. It's Visual Studio that will stop supporting Mac, not VSCode.
eli5, but isn't visual studio code a part of visual studio? or why is it not? or is this like a java/javascript thing where they are named similar because of popularity but have no codebase in common?
Those two are completely different products.
Visual Studio is a full IDE which include full microsoft SDK (C++, .net, etc), while VSCode is a text editor forked from Github's Atom text editor (which was the precursor of the Electron framework), with a javacript editor core called Monaco.
Aside from the SDKs you mentioned what makes Visual Studio a full IDE versus vscode being just a text editor?
The line is getting blurrier these days, but in general:
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with visual studio, you don't need to install anything else in order to build a windows app or a .net app. In comparison, with VSCode, in addition to installing various extensions in order to reach feature parity, you'll need to install the compilers and various libraries separately.
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using VSCode as a default text editor is no brainer as it launches in a few seconds. On the other hand, if you set visual studio as a default text editor, merely opening a text file can take significantly long time due to waiting for the ide to initialize.
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Might want to read the article:
While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we remain committed to our developers on Mac with alternatives like the recently announced C# Dev Kit for VS Code and other extensions that will allow you to take advantage of our ongoing investments in .NET development on a Mac.