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I love VSCode. I don't understand what's Microsoft's incentive is to put all this money behind it (by hiring external contributors and staffing the project). Wo

I love VSCode. I don't understand what's Microsoft's incentive is to put all this money behind it (by hiring external contributors and staffing the project). Would love to know, if someone can chime in.

kidfiji 9y ago
I think they just want to build on their ethos of being very developer-friendly; also that it could be some sort of a loss leader for them.
russell_h 9y ago
I don't know if they'll do it, but I'd love for them to offer a hosted VSCode product. It seems technically fairly feasible.
- smortaz 9y ago
  This is a great suggestion and I hope that VS Code gets there (and with it Python support). Meanwhile, for an approximation check out: https://notebooks.azure.com https://notebooks.azure.com Rumor has it that its successor, ie JupyterLab, may use the VS Code Editor as its code editor in the future.
  - my123 9y ago
    Visual Studio Online, the predecessor product of VS Code, uses the Monaco code editor.
- nimos 9y ago
  Not MS but there is a project in the works for roughly that(uses same base Monaco editor). Current version of VS code does actually rely a lot on file system stuff. https://github.com/theia-ide/theia https://github.com/theia-ide/theia
adamnemecek 9y ago
VSCode has raised msft's profile with devs not using the msft stack. If they now add like azure integration or something, I can imagine VSCode driving traffic to azure.
- phr4ts 9y ago
  Great suggestion. But... Microsoft has an annoying "in your face" bundling precedent. (Windows vs. IE, Windows Store. Renaming hell: windows live..editor, messenger, essentials, msn..messenger, One..drive, Xbox..music) It should be okay, if the VS code team can integrate Azure without management or marketing taking over. Else VS code would become Azure code and it'll nag you to login to your Azure account on every startup.
Delmania 9y ago
> I don't understand what's Microsoft's incentive is to put all this money behind it Well, that's easy, marketing. By creating a decent cross platform text editor and getting people behind it, they create a prescience on all 3 major operating systems and may attract people to check out their other offerings.
juststeve 9y ago
they could possibly want all your development toolchain and apps tied to their ecosystem, intertwined with linux and azure, so that the everything depends on their services.

kidfiji 9y ago

I think they just want to build on their ethos of being very developer-friendly; also that it could be some sort of a loss leader for them.

russell_h 9y ago

I don't know if they'll do it, but I'd love for them to offer a hosted VSCode product. It seems technically fairly feasible.

smortaz 9y ago
This is a great suggestion and I hope that VS Code gets there (and with it Python support). Meanwhile, for an approximation check out: https://notebooks.azure.com https://notebooks.azure.com Rumor has it that its successor, ie JupyterLab, may use the VS Code Editor as its code editor in the future.
- my123 9y ago
  Visual Studio Online, the predecessor product of VS Code, uses the Monaco code editor.
nimos 9y ago
Not MS but there is a project in the works for roughly that(uses same base Monaco editor). Current version of VS code does actually rely a lot on file system stuff. https://github.com/theia-ide/theia https://github.com/theia-ide/theia

adamnemecek 9y ago

VSCode has raised msft's profile with devs not using the msft stack. If they now add like azure integration or something, I can imagine VSCode driving traffic to azure.

phr4ts 9y ago
Great suggestion. But... Microsoft has an annoying "in your face" bundling precedent. (Windows vs. IE, Windows Store. Renaming hell: windows live..editor, messenger, essentials, msn..messenger, One..drive, Xbox..music) It should be okay, if the VS code team can integrate Azure without management or marketing taking over. Else VS code would become Azure code and it'll nag you to login to your Azure account on every startup.

Delmania 9y ago

> I don't understand what's Microsoft's incentive is to put all this money behind it Well, that's easy, marketing. By creating a decent cross platform text editor and getting people behind it, they create a prescience on all 3 major operating systems and may attract people to check out their other offerings.

juststeve 9y ago

they could possibly want all your development toolchain and apps tied to their ecosystem, intertwined with linux and azure, so that the everything depends on their services.