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Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source
by rchowe 10y ago
Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source projects like TypeScript and .NET Core act as a funnel to drive people to Azure.
I also think that they are trying to position .NET Core as a viable competitor to Java, for which they need decent cross-platform tooling.
- k__ 10y agoTrue. I have to admit, since I switched from Atom to VSCode, I'm also re-evaluating other Microsoft products. I even bought a copy of Win10 (but it wasn't as good as I hoped, haha). Also, I worked with a few DevOps people who really hated AWS usability and some of them said Azure should be much better.
- philliphaydon 10y agoAzure goes through ups and downs. It can be really good, and also really shitty. The transition of Classic to ARM (Azure Resource Manager) made me drop Azure for AWS. Now ARM is more or less stable so there's no issues, but damn when they started it was complicated. But in terms of UI... GCE > AWS > Azure.
- jastanton 10y agoWait what? So I switch from Sublime Text to Azure? Where is the missing node here... How do you go from using VS Code to using Azure?
- hashhar 10y agoPointing to another comment ITT. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768580 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768580
- frogfuzion 10y agoNot you, the solo developer, but maybe a team at BigCo currently running their own datacenter or a hybrid.
- kristianp 10y agoYes the .Net Core tooling with the Nuget integration on non-windows platforms would be the main reason Code exists. As for go, GoSublime is pretty good, I'm hesitant to go to a javascript based editor when Sublime offers such good go support.