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Re: [LUG] Visual Studio Code

 

Hi,

On this date - Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:31:24AM +0000, Giles Coochey wrote:
> 
> On 27/02/2020 10:03, Dom Rodriguez wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On this date - Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:39:20AM +0000, Giles Coochey wrote:
> > > On 27/02/2020 08:24, Tom via list wrote:
> > > > I've been looking around various programming tutorials and sites and
> > > > Visual Studio Code has quite a following. I've avoided it but it does
> > > > seem to be genuine open source and I do miss Visual Studio from 26 years
> > > > ago!
> > > > 
> > > I think it might be free to download pre-compiled, but I'm pretty sure it is
> > > not open source.
> > It is open source.
> 
> I stand corrected :-), yes Visual Studio Code source is maintained on
> github: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
> 
> Of course, not to be confused with Microsoft Visual Studio, which was
> probably where I got my incorrect verification via google from.

Yeah, we use that for college in our C# module, I hated it. Way too cluttered. I
do quite like Jetbrain's IDEs, though!

> 
> vscode is just a code editor, not an IDE, although it looks like it has nice
> bells and whistles.

Its pretty good. I'd still prefer a terminal editor, but VS Code is nice if you
don't mind the UI..

> 
> I'll still leave this here, as it's turtles all the way down:
> 
> > > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
> > > 

Interesting read!

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