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It's not meaningfully based on VS proper beside the name. The main difference is it lives in a very different ecological niche. Microsoft wouldn't have taken up
by pvg 4y ago
It's not meaningfully based on VS proper beside the name. The main difference is it lives in a very different ecological niche. Microsoft wouldn't have taken up its development if it didn't.
- 323 4y agoIf disruption does happen, it's better to be the one disrupting your own product than let others do it. Some people, a few for now, are migrating from VS proper to VS Code, including for languages like C++/C#. I am one of them.
- withinboredom 4y agoI can’t really use VS code for work (PHP support is nonexistent compared to PHPStorm), but I needed to make some changes to a C++ codebase in WSL. VS couldn’t get anything to work, I couldn’t even get it to compile. VS code got compiling and step debugging via gdb working after just a few tweaks to the make file and tasks. Worked like a charm.