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TouchDevelop has been around for quite a while; I remember first installing it on my WP7 phone back in 2012. I'm very happy to see the editor open-sourced. I t

TouchDevelop has been around for quite a while; I remember first installing it on my WP7 phone back in 2012. I'm very happy to see the editor open-sourced. I think this is a great example of Microsoft's new-found desire to promote learning and openness, rather than fight against it as they did in the past. My opinion of them over the past few years has slowly been swinging towards positive, and even though I'll likely never give up on Slackware and OpenBSD on the desktop and the server, I'm happy to see this new vision bearing fruit.

soup10 11y ago
All that glitters isn't gold. Wake me up when Microsoft makes a serious effort to make Visual Studio a cross platform development suite. We all know the only reason this exists is because Microsoft has little traction in the smartphone market and app developers won't target their hardware. If Microsoft phones were the market leader they would not give two fucks about portability.
- YorkianTones 11y ago
  https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/ https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/ Sounds like a serious effort to allow you to develop native iOS apps in VS instead of xcode. You're right the motivation is heavily to minimize the cost of porting/releasing iOS apps to WP/Windows.
- molesy 11y ago
  https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads I mean it's not everything, give them a little time though.
- jakejake 11y ago
  At the rate Microsoft has been releasing open source code and porting .NET over, I wouldn't be too surprised to see Visual Studio geared towards cross-platform development. They did already launch "Code" which, admittedly, doesn't hold a candle to VS. It looks to me like they're slowly releasing more and more framework tools so that VS running on OSX could actually be a possibility.
- benlower 11y ago
  (Speaking as someone who knows the folks behind the project) Actually, the reason this exists is because Peli, Nikolai and some other folks wanted to create a way to program your phone using only the phone (i.e. how do you make apps for your phone if that's your only device).

soup10 11y ago

All that glitters isn't gold. Wake me up when Microsoft makes a serious effort to make Visual Studio a cross platform development suite. We all know the only reason this exists is because Microsoft has little traction in the smartphone market and app developers won't target their hardware. If Microsoft phones were the market leader they would not give two fucks about portability.

YorkianTones 11y ago
https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/ https://dev.windows.com/en-US/uwp-bridges/ Sounds like a serious effort to allow you to develop native iOS apps in VS instead of xcode. You're right the motivation is heavily to minimize the cost of porting/releasing iOS apps to WP/Windows.
molesy 11y ago
https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads I mean it's not everything, give them a little time though.
jakejake 11y ago
At the rate Microsoft has been releasing open source code and porting .NET over, I wouldn't be too surprised to see Visual Studio geared towards cross-platform development. They did already launch "Code" which, admittedly, doesn't hold a candle to VS. It looks to me like they're slowly releasing more and more framework tools so that VS running on OSX could actually be a possibility.
benlower 11y ago
(Speaking as someone who knows the folks behind the project) Actually, the reason this exists is because Peli, Nikolai and some other folks wanted to create a way to program your phone using only the phone (i.e. how do you make apps for your phone if that's your only device).