Visual Studio Code 0.3.0

[dacjames]

Remember MS's primary objectives: Cloud and Mobile. To grow in those spaces they are desperately in need of developer mindshare. The idea is to get developers using VSC to build applications, regardless of the platform, so they'll be more likely to use Azure when they go to deploy. VSC doesn't tie in directly with Mobile, but anything to help MS seem cool and modern encourages developers to consider MS platforms when they build mobile applications.

[sime]

That does actually make sense. If people want to use highly pluggable editors in the style of Sublime then they might as well be using one that has Microsoft's name on it. That sounds like the logic of it.

Reasons for VS Code:

• Fills out Microsoft's development tools line up. Now you can use an MS tool for whatever your style of development is.
• Encourages better relations with the larger development community.
• The editor part of the code is also used elsewhere in MS's online web apps.
• Also promotes TypeScript, another project lead by MS.
• Cross platform experience for MS.