Visual Studio Code 1.7.1

Re:Visual Studio Code 1.7.1 by laurentdc on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:03PM (#12866361)

> It's great strategic marketing.

Yeah, it's clear they're trying to "save face" in front of the open source community and become more developer-friendly (Bash on Windows too).

But I must say, ten years ago when I had to choose between Java and C# for a SCADA project I picked the latter because of the Visual Studio IDE which was already well above the competition (think Eclipse/NetBeans back then).

I'm glad they've brought it back for all open source software.

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Re:Visual Studio Code 1.7.1 by mmgutz on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:45PM (#12866757)

I don't think it's so much "sav[ing] face" as much as it is getting the message out they fully support open source.

The long term play is azure which is their big money maker. 1/3 of deploys on azure (IIRC) use linux images. Our startup got a huge credit to host on azure and we don't use .NET nor Windows. Competition is good.

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