Community Ports 'Visual Studio Code' To Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi (infoworld.com) 79
An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld:
A community build project led by developer Jay Rodgers is making Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's lightweight source code editor, available for Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi boards, and other devices based on 32-bit or 64-bit ARM processors. Supporting Linux and Chrome OS as well as the DEB (Debian) and RPM package formats, the automated builds of Visual Studio Code are intended for less-common platforms that might not otherwise receive them. Obvious beneficiaries will be IoT developers focused on ARM devices -- and the Raspberry Pi in particular -- who will find it helpful to have the editor directly on the device they're programming against... Rodgers said the lure of Visual Studio Code for him was its user-friendly interface, making it approachable for new users.
Re:What a fucking waste of time! (Score:5, Funny)
Complaining on Slashdot is certainly much more productive. Carry on stalwart soldier!
Re: What a fucking waste of time! (Score:3)
Lame AC has never fixed a single bug in anything.
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Its because Microsoft's entire playbook still only contains multiple variations of embrace/extend/extinguish.
People that are still being fooled by Microsoft (i.e. most purchasing managers) won't understand this so won't actually know that it isn't what it pretends to be, but will think this must be a good thing in some general way.
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Yes a phrase that was used about 35 years ago. But please, tell me how EEE would work when it's open source.
Check IE. As soon as you extend via a proprietary component, open source be damned. Owning the entire delivery chain allows you to do these things, and DoJ be damned. Not much good to be fined your profits to date after your competition has been wiped off the map, leaving you with nothing but profit afterwards.
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Standards bodies, AFAIK, have never been ahead of the curve. The problem is when innovation is carried out by a monopoly that can leverage the existing monopoly to enforce its "innovations" (ActiveX is a big one there, although businesses were pretty dumb to lock in and attempt to grab the falling knife) Flash was interesting in its first few incarnations, but its shortcomings were too great to overcome.)
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Visual Studio Code is an open source editor with plugins that make it work with a variety of languages.
There's not even a paid version of it for purchasing managers to be fooled by.
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Visual Studio Code is pretty damned good.
No it fucking isn't.
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New editors are announced pretty much daily from all sorts of sources - but Microsoft release one and Slashdotters fall over themselves to deride MS for it.
In my time as a dev, I have used:
- EditPlus
- Notepad++
- Atom
- Brackets
- Scrawl
- Textmate
- Sublime
- BBEdit
- TextWrangler
- UltraEdit
and probably a bunch more ... but, ya know, MS releases one so fuck MS...
If this is Embrace Extend and Extinguish, then I'm all for it because VSCode is a fucking good editor.
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Oh look, an idiot who decides to comment about something they obviously have no actual knowledge of...
Visual Studio Code is an entirely separate product to Visual Studio. The two are only related by name.
VS Code is a fantastic, extensible, cross platform text editor with support for many many languages, plugins and code hinters.
Its also just a 37MB download for Windows, 68MB download for OSX and a 41MB download for Linux.
Visual Studio is a behemoth of an IDE, running into gigabytes of space used and is onl
Re: What a fucking waste of time! (Score:2)
Half of this conversation would go away if MS had the common sense NOT to call ther separate product by the similar and confusing name VIsualStudio xxx. The should call it something else.
Reminds me of the days when my boss confused Java and JavaScript, another marketing-driven name cockup.
And I agree with you, VScode is not bad.
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Like VS, hate VS; be a MS fan boy or a MS hatter, but please VS is not a lightweight editor as the blurb says.
Are you talking about Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code? They are two different things and this article is about the latter.
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It has very little to do with Visual Studio
Which is a very good thing, because otherwise you'd have to port an MFC application to Chrome OS. Good luck with that.
On the other hand, the value proposition of VS Code on Raspberry Pi seems much lower due to both a more stringent memory limitation and less stringent language and runtime limitation.
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Look again?
VS has gone from painful to wonderful in the last 12 years. It's gotten so good that you can even get by without 3rd party productivity add-ons like Resharper.
I understand you might prefer an other IDE, but saying VS is a "horrible mess" is just false.
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The actual merit doesn't depend on the general idea, it depends on the specific project.
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Sublime is at least not Electron-driven. Electron is bloated cancer, even if modern computers "can" run it.
Re: What a fucking waste of time! (Score:2)
No. If amateur hackers did bioengineering dev they would create Ebola++, brag about their l33t g3n3 sk1llzz, go and open source it and watch how the bad guys make Ebola+++ and exterminate the unbelieving part of humanity like rats.
And then still insist to n their cyberlibertarian principles to high heaven that information needs to be free, the bad guys can use the genes for heir own purpose and bitch that that someone violated some obscure clause in the GPL for genes.
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I think the poster basically lives around the concept of Down with this sort of thing [youtube.com]...
In other news... (Score:1, Informative)
Community "ports" microsoft.com to Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi.
etc... You get the idea.
Visual Studio "Code" isn't Visual Studio. It's also not a real program. It's merely a JavaScript "app" website wrapped in a copy of Chromium.
Re: In other news... (Score:1, Informative)
30 years ago they were a tech company. Now they're a legal company run by a lawyer.
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Will you stApp it already with all this crApp? You're making me very un'Appy!
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TIL I learned apps written in Javascript are not "real" programs. You are ridiculously behind the times. No one would want their *editor* to come with a *compiler*. They are completely different things. Your editor should adapt to use whichever compilers you wish, be they javascript, C++, or Rust. Keep on spreading your ignorant FUD, though, by all means.
(PS I actually hate VS Code, I just hate idiots much more.)
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You have the charm and tact of a slashdot reader.
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If you want to develop Android apps on Android download AIDE.
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Just Linux (Score:2)
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Um, what? There's *already* a version of VS Code for Linux.
https://code.visualstudio.com/download lets you download the version of Windows, Mac, or .deb/.rpm packages.
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Embedded: You're doing it wrong. (Score:1)
While I'm not an IDE person I can say that the Microsoft IDEs are amongst the best. But if you're editing your code on your target platform you're just doing embedded wrong. It's not all that hard to get a cross compiler going for something like a Raspberry Pi going.
And if you compile anything complicated you'll save yourself time in the long run. The RPi and other embedded targets are not the spiffiest when it comes to CPU bound gcc.
Oh, and if you're using a scripting language to write your embedded code t
Emacs was too bloated (Score:2, Funny)
Eighty Meg's And Constantly Swapping ... Ducks
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Emacs wasn't bloated enough.
So we had to make VS Code that takes 500 MB on starting with a few files.
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Eighty? Eight!
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Re: Microsoft made a bad naming decision (Score:2)
Fully agree. Like the whole Java va JavaScript thing, another marketing-driven aming cockup
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Huh? (Score:2)
There is VI and Emacs and Joe (for the WordStar shortcut users like me), and a ton of others. What else is needed? This seems like complete nonsense to me.
Re: Huh? (Score:2)
Look, I love joe, I used it this morning, after 30 years the WordPerfect keybndings are wired into my neurons.
Back in 1988 I even wrote a small spreadsheet for DOS with WP keybindings.
But it is not an IDE and if you use it as one you are doing something wrong.
"User-friendly interface" (Score:2)
If you're doing *embedded development* and can't even figure out how to use vim, an arguably *much more powerful* editor that runs on every platform imaginable, you're in for a very hard time.