Microsoft's slim-and-trim development environment is now a full-blown 1.0 release with a large user base spanning languages and platforms
Visual Studio Code,
Microsoft's open source, cross-platform development environment powered
by Node.js and the Blink layout engine has been upgraded to a full 1.0
release after approximately a year of open beta testing.
According to a blog post
on the Visual Studio site, Code became a 1.0-grade product because its
API has been stabilized. Code was originally created for JavaScript and
TypeScript development, but it now supports common languages like C++,
Python, Go, and React Native.
Much of the other work has been dedicated to producing a stable API for
the application, so third-party language support going forward will be
easier to maintain. Around 1,000 extensions are available for Code,
providing themes, support for different languages, and enhancements for
libraries in those languages.
including Go, Python, and many flavors of JavaScript.
A large part of Visual Studio Code's appeal is that it presents a
lightweight, unobtrusive environment, where a developer installs only
the items needed for a given job. It's in sharp contrast to the
product's namesake, Visual Studio, which comes with most everything a
developer might need, but is sprawling, complex, and not open source.
The contrasts between the two products are playing out like long-term
experiments to see which approach will hold up best over time. Visual
Studio is emblematic of Microsoft's old school and is designed to serve
Microsoft users first -- though Microsoft has been working to heighten
its appeal to newer generations of developers by slimming it down and even offering a functional for-free version. Visual
Studio Code is powered as much by open source contributors as it is
Microsoft, and it was built for the cross-platform, cross-environment
development that Microsoft has admitted it must be part of.
Source: InfoWorld
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