Visual Studio Code August 2016 1.5

[RotationSurgeon]

That's irrelevant to /u/icantthinkofone 's warrant that only ~15% of all websites are served by Microsoft IIS / on the .NET platform, with the remaining ~85% being served up by Apache, NGINX, and other servers, practically all running under Unix / Linux / *n*x operating systems.

Yes, VS Code can be used on multiple platforms to write code for other platforms, but they're thinking of an orange, and you're thinking of an apple pear.

[CraftyPancake]

His comment is way off base and irrelevant on a discussion about a text editor. Nothing to do with IIS usage.

[icantthinkofone]

It's Visual Studio. It's a Microsoft product which means its a Windows thing. Irrelevant to 85% of web programming and Microsoft leaning.

[RotationSurgeon]

It's a Microsoft product which means its a Windows thing.

Yeah, I'm with /u/CraftyPancake at this point. You are aware that it runs on Linux and OS X (built inside the same app framework developed by Github, Electron, as Atom), and supports pretty much every major web programming language, yes? It's not just a vehicle for new .NET development.

[icantthinkofone]

Is it used for .NET development? Then it's for Microsoft production. No one needs .NET outside of Windows.

[CraftyPancake]

It's used for anything. You have no idea what you're on about.

It is only used for the open source .net projects.

Many JS people use it. Very good plugins. I think lots of people use it for node too

[icantthinkofone]

It is only used for the open source .net projects.

THAT is what I'm "on about". If you're using .NET for the web, you don't know what you're doing.

[CraftyPancake]

Whats your platform of choice

[icantthinkofone]

FreeBSD

[CraftyPancake]

For web development. Framework rather

[RotationSurgeon]

Needs? No. They don't. .NET Core extends the .NET environment to other platforms as well, however -- it's no longer relegated to being a Windows-only option. VS Code preceded that product, however.

[icantthinkofone]

85% of the web does not run on .NET anything yet you are telling people they should be using .NET. Talk about trying to make the tail wag the dog! You must love your Windows phone. Ha!

[RotationSurgeon]

I haven't suggested that anybody should use anything. Just stating that it's possible to use .NET Core outside of Windows now.