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Re:CoreCLR building on ARM by shanselman on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:11PM (#9952545)
No, because it's all using Windows UI APIs underneath. The cross platform VS code editor is code.visualstudio.com. You'll never see FULL VS elsewhere, IMHO.
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Re:CoreCLR building on ARM by zamalek on Monday July 27, 2015 @05:52AM (#9954257)
> Windows UI APIs

To add on to this: COM.

When you work with non-MEF Visual Studio extensions it's COM all the way down. To port Visual Studio you'd first need to port COM, which is probably never going to happen. Removing COM looks like it would encroach on rewrite territory (and would break a bunch of existing plugins that use it): also incredibly unlikely.

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