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0 pointsorphea6mo ago0 comments

  > At some point Visual Studio seemed to be a legacy app only used for Windows-specific app development. Then they released VSCode and boom!

I'm not sure what the point is. Visual Studio is still Windows-only; VS Code is not related to it in any shape or form, the name is deliberately misleading.

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raincole6mo ago

The point is MS was so, so, so late to the party of cross-platform developer tools. And then suddenly they won the game.

foobarchu6mo ago

It really helps that VSCode isn't intrinsically tied to any other Microsoft products. It doesn't demand you use any specific platforms/languages/compilers, it doesn't demand you use GitHub, it runs on all major operating systems in basically the same way, it doesn't demand or even politely ask that you sign into a Microsoft account.

If it weren't for the name, you'd never know it was even a Microsoft product.

orpheaOP6mo ago

Ah, it makes total sense to me now. Thanks.

jen206mo ago

Indeed I heard directly from someone involved that the VS Code team understood the reputation of Visual Studio and wanted to call the product “Code” instead, and the compromise with marketing leadership was the the binary was called “code”.

monkeyelite6mo ago

Visual studio is good though. I wish I could it use it instead of code or Xcode

jlarocco6mo ago

I use it 5 days a week, and unless you're talking about an ancient version from the 90s, I don't understand how you can say that.

icemelt86mo ago

> VS Code is not related to it in any shape or form Except they are made by the same company? and literally own the trademark for both?

hennell6mo ago

Oracle literally own the trademark for both Java and JavaScript.

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