eli5, but isn’t visual studio code a part of visual studio? or why is it not? or is this like a java/javascript thing where they are named similar because of popularity but have no codebase in common?
Visual Studio is a full IDE which include full microsoft SDK (C++, .net, etc), while VSCode is a text editor forked from Github’s Atom text editor (which was the precursor of the Electron framework), with a javacript editor core called Monaco.
The line is getting blurrier these days, but in general:
with visual studio, you don’t need to install anything else in order to build a windows app or a .net app. In comparison, with VSCode, in addition to installing various extensions in order to reach feature parity, you’ll need to install the compilers and various libraries separately.
using VSCode as a default text editor is no brainer as it launches in a few seconds. On the other hand, if you set visual studio as a default text editor, merely opening a text file can take significantly long time due to waiting for the ide to initialize.
While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we remain committed to our developers on Mac with alternatives like the recently announced C# Dev Kit for VS Code and other extensions that will allow you to take advantage of our ongoing investments in .NET development on a Mac.
When did vs code announce they would stop supporting Mac?
They are mistaken. Visual Studio for Mac is being retired next year, not vscode. Not the same program…
Good good good good. We just wrote a huge batch of quick start on boarding scripts to set up new devs with a good baseline vs code configuration
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It’s not. It’s Visual Studio that will stop supporting Mac, not VSCode.
eli5, but isn’t visual studio code a part of visual studio? or why is it not? or is this like a java/javascript thing where they are named similar because of popularity but have no codebase in common?
Those two are completely different products.
Visual Studio is a full IDE which include full microsoft SDK (C++, .net, etc), while VSCode is a text editor forked from Github’s Atom text editor (which was the precursor of the Electron framework), with a javacript editor core called Monaco.
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The line is getting blurrier these days, but in general:
with visual studio, you don’t need to install anything else in order to build a windows app or a .net app. In comparison, with VSCode, in addition to installing various extensions in order to reach feature parity, you’ll need to install the compilers and various libraries separately.
using VSCode as a default text editor is no brainer as it launches in a few seconds. On the other hand, if you set visual studio as a default text editor, merely opening a text file can take significantly long time due to waiting for the ide to initialize.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-for-mac-retirement-announcement/
Might want to read the article: