VS Code can do that?

Re:VS Code can do that? by snarfy on Saturday April 21, 2018 @12:22PM (#16892002)

Wouldn't it just be Visual Studio then? We would get updates once a year instead of once a month. There are less C++ devs than JS devs. The size of the community that could contribute would shrink also.

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Re:VS Code can do that? by darylfritz on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:11PM (#16943442)

> Wouldn't it just be Visual Studio then? We would get updates once a year instead of once a month.

For what it's worth, the Visual Studio team now releases minor updates roughly every six weeks (including bug fixes and new features), and service updates almost weekly [1]. They also rely quite heavily on user feature requests [2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/vs...

[2] https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...

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Re:VS Code can do that? by coldtea on Saturday April 21, 2018 @01:57PM (#16892420)

>Wouldn't it just be Visual Studio then?

No, but it would "just be" an open source, MS backed, version of Sublime or TextMate. The concept of Visual Studio is different.

>We would get updates once a year instead of once a month.

The language the core is in is irrelevant as to whenever we would see updates. That's a concern of the release process.

>There are less C++ devs than JS devs.

Not really important, as most of the contributors are MS guys anyway. In fact a single person has made Sublime Text, an editor that offers most of what VSCode offers, with 1/100 the budget and manpower. If only it was Open Source too, or had a few more devs...

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Re:VS Code can do that? by Tagore on Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:14AM (#16894941)

Parsing C++ is a nightmare....

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