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Excuse my ignorance, but wasn't VSCode already available on ARM? Is the difference being to use APT for installation? That said, the accessibility of inexpens
by PaulWaldman 6y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but wasn't VSCode already available on ARM? Is the difference being to use APT for installation?
That said, the accessibility of inexpensive tools like this to get started writing your own software is phenomenal! It's a bit encouraging in the wave of users migrating away from production to consumption devices.
- greyandgreen 6y agoThere's a difference between it being "available" and including it as a default repository in sources.list.d. Available means it's a choice. Not everyone wants MS software on their computers. I don't. This means that your systems checks in with MS every time an update is run. If others follow suit out of a "Me, too!" obligation, I may lean to NetBSD or OpenBSD on my Pis. I severely dislike MS's telemetry and how they have their hooks in everything. My software should never phone home unless I want it to do so.
- flohofwoe 6y agoIt was available "unofficially" from here: https://github.com/headmelted/codebuilds https://github.com/headmelted/codebuilds
- vetinari 6y agoLooking here: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code/pool/main/c/code/ https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code/pool/main/c/code/ it seems, it has been available natively for some time already.