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Visual Studio Code 1.7.2
- kinkdr 10y agoThe speed at which they release updates is at least impressive. Visual Studio Code and Typescript have completely changed the way I look at MS. Kudos to the team.
- flukus 10y ago> The speed at which they release updates is at least impressive. How so? Many companies and projects iterate this fast, many even faster.
- mastazi 10y ago> Many companies True, but that wasn't the case with your grandpa's MS.
- ranchanche 10y agoShhh. Remember you're not supposed to criticize Microsoft here: they're the good guys now!
- aq3cn 10y agoI have been using Windows Insider builds since 2014. It is unique experience for me to see an operating system get developed week by week. Though it is a pain to upgrade (not update) OS every week but it is totally worth my excitement. If I have any resentment I go to feedback app to share my thoughts, and surprisingly I get response too once in while from MS team. MS is not same MS. VS Code is just fraction of what MS has become.
- ranchanche 10y ago> Visual Studio Code and Typescript have completely changed the way I look at MS. Kudos to the PR team. FTFY ;-)
- KayL 10y agoWill it bring npmjs down again? Is there any hidden new upgrade to npmjs recently?
- vanderZwan 10y agoConsidering they've been working together with NPM since the previous recovery build, I highly doubt they would have released this unless both parties were really sure this will cause no problems.
- Arnavion 10y agoYes, I believe it uses https://www.npmjs.com/package/types-registry https://www.npmjs.com/package/types-registry now, going by https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/a8ef77c3/src/server/typingsInstaller/nodeTypingsInstaller.ts#L59 https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/a8ef77c3/src/se...
- RyanCavanaugh 10y agoTwo main issues combined to cause the NPM problems: NPM didn't cache 404 responses, so they were much more expensive than normal fetches, and VS Code issued way too many requests which resulted in 404s. Both have been addressed -- NPM handles 404s better now, and VS Code will no longer request packages which don't exist (by downloading the registry package once). Either fix would have be sufficient, but having both is better.
- hackcrafter 10y agoI think these "recovery builds" are inevitable with the cadence they are maintaining on major releases. Fastest moving MS project I've seen. I'm really curious how big their team is that works on this. 2-pizza sized?
- mhoad 10y agoIt really does blow my mind and it isn't at all like their monthly releases are in any way small. Take November's one that they are currently working on for instance here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/30 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/milestone/30 there is just a bit under 500 different issues that this new release will touch on.
- c54 10y agoLooks to be ~20 people as far as I can tell (source: I'm a MS employee, not on the vscode team)
- tracker1 10y agoI'd be willing to send the team a couple pizza's for their work on this... It's my favorite product to ever come out of MS.
- santaclaus 10y agoWhy does this point release require ffmpeg?
- Arnavion 10y agoElectron (ie Chromium) dependency?
- jhasse 10y agoHow does it require ffmpeg?
- Aldo_MX 10y agohttps://www.chromium.org/audio-video https://www.chromium.org/audio-video
- Matthias247 10y agoThe HTML Audio and Video support is probably all not used in Code. However I guess it could be hard to compile chromium (and electron) without these, if they didn't invest the additional effort to put them behind a compile flag.
- yulaow 10y agoI wish they would start working on a auto-update feature for linux installations
- Thaxll 10y agoI've never seen that on Linux I think there are some technical limitation for that feature, Chrome doesn't have auto-update either.
- irfanka 10y agoWell, I'd be fine with apt-get upgrade... It's what Chrome does, as well.
- bopcrane 10y agoI second this, I'd just appreciate better integration with apt - I'm already using this method to update my linux machines anyways
- simlevesque 10y agoThe problem with this is that if they support apt, where should it stop ? should they support portage, pacman, homebrew, Nix, Guix, yum, dpkg ? I don't think it is Microsoft's job to provide packages for every manager. They should make an executable and then anyone who uses a package manager can package the program. Here's where you can get a community PPA for VSCode: https://github.com/tagplus5/vscode-ppa https://github.com/tagplus5/vscode-ppa
- Thaxll 10y agoAPT and YUM are the standard tbh, the rest is up to the community.
- mixedCase 10y agoThey are no standards. And both DEBs and RPMs are often distro specific. Linux releases should be done source only making it as easy as possible for packagers to compile using libraries present on the system; or using a tool like AppImage and packaging everything yourself.
- OldSchoolJohnny 10y agoI wish they would consider changing the name of it, it's all but impossible to search for any internet wide resources on it.
- KevanM 10y agoI find VSCode usually does the trick.
- vmarsy 10y agoAwesome! In the next release we'll hopefully have the "hot-exit" behavior like Sublime, where you can close the editor without having to save files, and they're back where you left off when re-opening. Apparently, the PR for this got merged only 2 weeks ago [1] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issuecomment-260210042 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issuecomment-...
- fencepost 10y agoGiven the recent increase in Windows' no-you-can't-stop-me update restart behavior this seems more important every week, at least on my Windows 10 guinea pig system. Being able to just throw some text into a blank buffer and not lose it in Notepad++ has made that my scratch pad of choice these days.
- tbrock 10y agoHow can anyone work on an operating system that behaves that's way? Complain about MacOS we might but at least it doesn't restart without us being able to stop it.
- supernovae 10y agoIt actually isn't this way. In the control panel you simply tell the updates to install when you're not using the computer. The only time it forces you to update is when you have ignored or disabled the updates for a period of time.
- fencepost 10y agoYes and no. It'll wait until you're not using the computer to install overnight, when you've been away for a while, whatever. What it won't do as far as I've seen is allow applications to block the restart if perhaps they contain unsaved data. Your unsaved data is not Windows' problem, and after the restart it won't be yours either - if the app doesn't support hot exit/autosaving of modified buffers/documents then recreating unsaved data will be your problem (but still not Windows' problem).
- isaac_is_goat 10y agoI have this and Sublime installed...until the editor gets rid of fuzzy fonts when scaling resolutions, I unfortunately have to stick to Sublime even though I reaaaaaaaaaaaaally like VS Code.
- gcp 10y agoWhat do you mean with "scaling resolutions"?
- isaac_is_goat 10y agoI have a 4k screen, but like to set resolution scaling to 150% on Windows. MacOS also does this for the retina displays. It looks fine for the most parts, and fonts render fantastically with Sublime but VSCode fonts in the editor are blurry and make it harder on the eyes for reading.