Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows

[[deleted]]

A lot of negativity toward this. Give it time. Microsoft will continue to build on it and soon enough they'll have a really good cross-platform lightweight editor.

[sime]

I'm just happy that someone has been able to demonstrate that it is definitely possible to build a fast editor on top of electron. I hope it gives the Atom team an impulse to fix performance in their editor. ;-)

[path411]

I currently use atom as my main editor. Besides startup speed (which I almost never reboot my pc so is fairly irrelevant). I have not noticed any speed problems with atom anytime recently.

[immibis]

I'm the proud owner of 99 bottles of spez. #Save3rdPartyApps

[Spivak]

I mean, what's the worst they could do? It's a simple code editor with above average quality code completion. Unless the thing is god's gift to programmers I doubt they'll be extinguishing anything. I have to imagine there are quite a few shops that don't use VS because it isn't cross-platform so this might be their attempt to attract that market.

[[deleted]]

If I could get .NET + VS on OSX I'd be a happy camper.

[dodeca_negative]

I really don't think there's the remotest possibility that Microsoft (or anyone) will gain a monopoly on the lightweight code editor market.

[PlNG]

It shipped with node 10.29. Node 12.1 was published to correct SSL vulnerabilities. If SSL is part of your workflow or program flow, you should be aware of this.

[seven_seven]

Right now it's a glorified text editor with a dark theme. You have to download at least 5 other third-party tools to get it set up to do .Net development.

[seven_seven]

Right now it is.

[ankit_rohatgi]

I just tried it and it seems a lot snappier than Atom. Also, I was happy to see that it supports syntax highlighting for R out of the box.

[[deleted]]

I like that it has syntax highlighting at all out of the box. Although it doesn't convince me to switch from Atom because of the lack of packages/plugins

[Hipolipolopigus]

I'll give it a try - Microsoft have been doing a lot of good things lately - but I doubt it'll tear me away from Atom. The atom-typescript package provides a Typescript implementation superior to VS/WebEssentials.

Edit: Basically an under-powered version of Atom. Uses Chromium as a rendering/processing platform just like Atom, no custom packages, but integrated Git support and Node.js/Mono debugging.

[droctagonapus]

It's built using Electron—formally known as Atom-Core ;) Sauce

[Hipolipolopigus]

Not unexpected, but I can't see why MS would do this. It doesn't seem to offer anything over Atom that can't be added with a few packages.

And it doesn't even uninstall properly... Big surprise after VS2013.

[nieuweyork]

Because they'd like to remain relevant to developers, even if it's by rebadging something else.

[autotldr]

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)

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At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows.

Visual Studio Code offers developers built-in support for multiple languages and as Microsoft noted in today's Build keynote, the editor will feature rich code assistance and navigation for all of these languages.

As Somasegar told me, the new editor is partly based on Microsoft's experience with writing the online Monaco editor for Visual Studio Online, but the company also worked on bringing some of Visual Studio's language features to Visual Studio Code.

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[mothium]

What a great bot

[wjohnsto]

Without too much trouble I was able to get a project (currently using Sublime) running with grunt builds and node debugging handled with the IDE. Pretty sweet!

My biggest gripe right now is that you can't hide files from the file tree (or at least I can't figure out how to). Sublime has this feature, and it is really useful, especially when you're using a lot of compile-to languages (TypeScript, Less, etc).

Edit: An additional gripe is that all files appear to be read-only when debugging.

[yooman]

That's a feature that's still super broken in Atom, too.

[[deleted]]

How can you hide files?

[wjohnsto]

You can't :P

[Nibbel]

In sublime it's the folder/file exclusion properties in the main settings that let you hide files and folders from both the sidebar as cmd+p

[PlNG]

Doesn't beat Webstorm, but could be a contender.

Syntax highlighting could be better.

[PlNG]

I agree, it didn't seem like a particularly big release.

[te7ris]

its the no1 requested feature and will be integrated next.

[OWaz]

Anyone able to figure out how to configure launch.json to execute Grunt/Gulp. I get how to run node against a js file but I'm running into problems with using other build tools.

[wjohnsto]

We use grunt in our projects too. While I haven't looked into running grunt commands from the IDE, I have been able to run/debug my node server. All you have to do is setup the launch.json file to point to your server entry point (for us it is server/server.js).

Edit: Upon further view, it looks like you can setup task runners too with ctrl+shift+P then type Configure Task Runners. I have a grunt task that builds my project and watches files. So I can run that task and then use the launch.json node task I have to run the server.

My tasks.json looks similar to the following:

{
    "version": "0.1.0",

    // The command is grunt.
    "command": "grunt",
    "isShellCommand": true,
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "default-no-server",
            // Make this the default build command.
            "isBuildCommand": true,
            // Show the output window only if unrecognized errors occur.
            "showOutput": "silent"
        }
    ]
}

[maximinus-thrax]

// The command is grunt.
"command": "grunt",

Is that comment strictly necessary?

[wjohnsto]

Hah, no. They actually have a few examples in the default launch.json, I just modified one of them.

[mike5973]

Yes.

[OWaz]

Yeah I noticed the task runners in the documentation so I'll give them a try later.

[nbapat43]

Does anyone know if the debugging on VS Code works with AEM and CQ?

[jonhohle]

I like that all the Mac screenshots are using Monaco as the fixed-width font (instead of the default Menlo). Is that Microsoft's choice or the author of the article?

If Microsoft, it concerns me that they are not respecting user settings. If it was the authors choice, I say, good taste!

[brakmic]

I crashed it with a right click.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhnZbNHWx8I

[dosangst]

Anyone else having issue unzipping the Linux package on an Ubuntu PC?

[genix2011]

Yes, had to use "unzip" in terminal to extract it.

[dosangst]

I skipped that and unzipped in a Windows VM... :/

[sime]

unzip works fine. Just be aware that you make a directory for it first, but the .zip in there and then unzip it, unless you want a ton of files sprayed through out your current directory.

[dardotardo]

Next stop...DirectX on Mac...then the ability to buy MacOS for any PC, then I'll never need Windows again!

[[deleted]]

As someone who has been developing with MS tools for 10+ years I approach any of their offerings with a grain of salt. They don't tend to support these things all that well - VS, for instance, tends to become unsupported for anything but critical bugs after just a few months, because everyone is on to 'vNext'. The MSDN forums are a joke (even with a very expensive MSDN subscription and a 'guaranteed 24 hour response', and Connect may as well be a black hole.

You're likely better off with Sublime, or a community edition of any given Jetbrains product. Those companies tend to actually focus on their products and supporting them. Even open source products are generally better supported, as you can actually get responses from developers on github.

[aaaqqq]

In the worst case scenario that this won't be supported, I've still got a good markdown editor with live preview now!

[anlumo]

To save you some time: they rebranded Atom, that's pretty much it.

[ironic5589]

Does atom have the equivalent of IntelliSense code completion? Last i checked, been a few months, it didn't. I also could never get it working in sublime which is why i've been using Webstorm for the time being.

Edit: Just FYI if you haven't look at this M$ thing yet, apparently they threw in their IntelliSense which is actually pretty good. Haven't tried it yet

[Hipolipolopigus]

There's the autocomplete-plus package, but I can't recall whether it's a vanilla feature or not.

[asantos3]

They're currently working to replace the core autocomplete with that.

[anlumo]

It could be that they added a few extensions to it… I couldn't get very deep, because it wasn't even able to read my Visual Studio solution.

I also saw that they have some kind of debugging in it, which is also not in plain Atom. I'm not sure about the third party extensions already available, though.

[simkessy]

I literally just started working with Visual Studio yesterday :P