GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button

Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by Dayshine on Thursday June 07, 2018 @07:02AM (#17254770)

>DotNet Core debugger is proprietary . You can only debug apps within Microsoft environment according to their license.

People keep bringing this up as if it's some evil plan, not a legacy problem.

The debugger is based on Visual Studio's closed source debugger. Visual Studio is a major paid product. It's not simple to just extract an integral feature from a paid product.

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by gmueckl on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:27AM (#17255150)

> It's not simple to just extract an integral feature from a paid product.

Why? This isn't a technical challenge. As far as I know, the actual debugging engines are pretty isolated modules with some alternative interfaces already available (e.g. cdb). So where do you see the real challenge?

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Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button by Dayshine on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:13PM (#17257183)

No, it's not a technical challenge. It's a business issue. You know, the whole Visual Studio makes us a lot of money can we really afford to just open license its main feature?

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