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I don't understand what the end goal of Visual Studio Code is. It is gradually growing into a full-blown IDE, with IntelliSense, linting, refactoring, debugging
by chinhodado 11y ago
I don't understand what the end goal of Visual Studio Code is. It is gradually growing into a full-blown IDE, with IntelliSense, linting, refactoring, debugging, its own extensions, etc. Is Microsoft just trying to rewrite VS using JavaScript to have a cross-platform IDE instead of porting VS?
- paulddraper 11y agoI really want to know too. Is this just Visual Studio for JSers?
- JBReefer 11y agoThe Go plugin has quickly made it into one of the major tools of choice for that community, or so I've heard.
- abiox 11y ago> instead of porting VS i imagine that the vs gui is rather platform specific and would require a complete rewrite. so "porting" would, i guess, resemble something like what we're seeing with VSCode. would rather the gui was in QT, but such is life. (not to suggest VSCode is actually a proper porting attempt, i have no idea.)
- wvenable 11y agoVisual Studio Code started as a fork of their online Visual Studio editor -- so they already had that code to make into a cross-platform IDE. If their goal was to make a cross-platform IDE from scratch, they probably wouldn't have started this way.
- jarjoura 11y agoMy guess is this is going to become a full blown toolkit that easily enables Azure development. Once you can one-click deploy a service to Azure and then write the library that exports to Xcode or Android studio, Microsoft wins. It's possible what we're seeing right now is a lot of A/B testing to gauge what people on OS X and Linux really want out of a text editor.