CoreCLR is now open source

Re:CoreCLR is now open source by chriscub on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:57PM (#8992879)

Funny thing is that internal to Microsoft, most devs don't use Visual Studio as an IDE. Maybe as an editor or a debugger, but there are a lot of build systems out within Microsoft and most of them don't plug into Visual Studio.

IMO, open sourcing Visual Studio itself is not all that interesting vs. open sourcing the .NET platform.

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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by robwilliams on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:47PM (#8993239)

I work at Microsoft and everything is done through Visual Studio (C#, C++, Javascript, X++, etc.). Where is VS not used inside Microsoft?

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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by wesnerm2 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @04:40PM (#8993588)

I worked at Microsoft Excel 15 years ago and Visual Studio was only used as a debugger. Visual SlickEdit was the editor and compiling/building was command-line based. Each group is different.

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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by robwilliams on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @05:42PM (#8994022)

Ah, that may be true. However, there was a push within my division to standardize all of our tools with VS (there used to be a separate editor for X++ but now it's all VS), and I've heard other things about other divisions.

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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by luuio on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @03:58PM (#8993308)

umm, source?

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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by chriscub on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:45PM (#9000136)

Source is I worked there for eight years. Left two years ago. There was a push around the time I left to standardize more on TFS, but historically, VS was regarded internally as a bit non-hardcore.

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