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Visual Studio Code is an oxymoron -- there isn't anything visual about it. "Visual" in Visual Studio use to mean UI widgets you can drop onto a form or some la
by mycall 10y ago
Visual Studio Code is an oxymoron -- there isn't anything visual about it. "Visual" in Visual Studio use to mean UI widgets you can drop onto a form or some layout grid.
- Clubber 10y agoI think they went to the "visual" moniker when IDEs started to become GUI (Windows vs DOS) based. It's been years, but I remember having to position controls using coordinates in code when tinkering with Visual C++. It certainly didn't have drag and drop like Visual Basic did at the time.
- altern8tif 10y agoI guess it made sense to keep the brand since people do associate it with Microsoft. Like how iTunes ain't really all about tunes anymore.