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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by dec0dedab0de on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:41AM (#26114848)
On one hand, anything to make learning to program easier is a good thing.

On the other, every time I hear about Microsoft getting deeper into the open source community, it feels like a friend is telling me she's getting back with an abusive ex because he's changed. I know its a very large company with many faces each with their own pros and cons. I also know vscode is quite good, and if they pulled some classic Microsoft trickery it would be forked.

At this point It's just a gut reaction to all things Microsoft, I don't even remember why I don't like them anymore. Still, more and better software is a good thing. More people learning is a good thing. I don't know, I just think some of the overly negative comments are being bashed more than they deserve, because they were being emotional and not acknowledging it.

Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by randomsearch on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:38AM (#26115458)
I think MS are being smart. Go after the developers, design the IDEs, the repo software, the languages, and then get them developing for Azure.
Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by brundolf on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:39PM (#26118872)
The optimistic interpretation is that they just want to repair their image in the minds of developers, so that more developers feel open to using Azure (Developers! Developers! Developers!)

But I agree there's something unnerving about how deep their grasp has been getting lately

Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by accusitive on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:10AM (#26115151)
VSCode is forked, into Vscode-oss and vscodium. These forks are small-minor changes, just building without microsoft's telemetry, so nothing that substantial.
Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by betamaxthetape on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:48PM (#26119978)
While there are only minor changes between VSCode and the open source builds, increasingly the ecosystem around VSCode is becoming proprietary. For example, the Remote Development extension is proprietary[1].

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/faq#_why-arent-the...

Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by shuntress on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:12AM (#26115184)