Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft

Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by hawski on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:43PM (#23341652)

Don't kid yourself with it. People use vscode, because it's free - first - and because it's great - second. It wouldn't have probably even 1% of it's user base and plugin writers otherwise.

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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by Bedon292 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:00PM (#23342549)

There are tons of free options out there though. People chose to use VSCode from the list of free tools because it is great.

And I have no problem paying for an IDE, but I stopped because VSCode was as good, if not better, than any paid option out there for my uses.

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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by rodgerd on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:53PM (#23343213)

If "free" and "has plugins" were what mattered, there is Notepad++, Atom, Emacs, and many other choices. VS Code is doing rather better than all of them.

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Re:Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft by hawski on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:15AM (#23346486)

I only said that price is an overriding consideration. It would not matter how much better it is, if it would not be free.

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