I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

    • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They are mistaken. Visual Studio for Mac is being retired next year, not vscode. Not the same program…

      • Greater Than Stupid@dmv.social
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        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?

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          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.

      • Gamma@beehaw.org
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        Might want to read the article:

        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.