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Microsoft getting money from things like this is probably, on balance, a good thing. It helps justify resources to build, support, and improve it. Because eve
by x0x0 6y ago
Microsoft getting money from things like this is probably, on balance, a good thing. It helps justify resources to build, support, and improve it. Because every year, someone has to justify probably multi-million dollar budget lines for pylance / their python type checker.
- saagarjha 6y agoThat’s the other part I can’t figure out: where can people pay for this?
- x0x0 6y agoMy guess is that Microsoft really intends their strategy to be the best for developers, and this is justified as part of that support. ie make Windows the best development tool, and dollars will follow. I think it's smart. Building and deploying software on mac or mac/linux docker containers with a linux/docker/aws target certainly has lots of room for improvement, and I'm happy to see someone compete on that.
- ssivark 6y agoI presume it will be a piece of their larger strategy of moving development activity to the cloud by integrating the VSCode/Codespaces+Github+Azure and providing all kinds of conveniences such as language support, git support, easy CI/CD, etc. In that world of integrated deveopment (IDE++, if you will), it wouldn't make sense to sell access to component pieces.