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Visual Studio Code 1.7

454 points by mpalme 10y ago

pomber 10y ago
CSS completions in HTML, I was waiting for that one (for Polymer projects).
- od14 10y ago
  Intellisense for script tags in HTML still not working though...
Philipp__ 10y ago
Microsoft and TypeScript team are doing amazing work with this editor! There are so many interesting features in it, gave it a shot few weeks ago and was really satisfied. And it is probably the first electron app that didn't feel like rest of the bunch, that are pretty much hogs and not very responsive (especially when we talk about editors and IDEs). But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. It just got so much under my skin, and I got so much used to them that using GUI editor after few years of them just feels odd. And I use them for 5 years. I can't imagine how it is for people that used them for 20+ years...
- codycraven 10y ago
  I've been using the Vim extension for quite a while and it's become fairly robust. I think it bests jVi in Netbeans.
  - ChrisLTD 10y ago
    Which vim extension in particular?
    - adt2bt 10y ago
      Not GP but probably VSCodeVim
    - deleted 10y ago
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  - gosukiwi 10y ago
    Does it support visual block mode now?
    - johnfn 10y ago
      VSCodeVim does support visual block mode.
  - FrancoDiaz 10y ago
    I really miss leaders though.
- divbit 10y ago
  >But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. I never got the hang of Emacs, but there is a decent vim extension (there are a bunch) called vimStyle which at least gets you the vim-like code navigation.
  - Philipp__ 10y ago
    I had really hard time for 3 months (after using vim for 4 years). I just uninstalled everything else, and first week was painful, but it was really fun since I wanted to learn Lisp/Scheme, so I touched ELisp while playing/tweaking with emacs. After that I just couldn't go back to Vim. I started tweaking and digging. The point of Emacs is that you can make it be whatever you want. It can be both amazingly ugly and beautiful, minimal or heavy like an OS. In the end, what kept me on Emacs to be sincere was auto indentation and perfect completion system. I always had to tweak and fix those things in Vim. In Emacs, nothing, I just write code (yeah, navigating code in Vim is faster, but Emacs has some really neat ides like rectangles).
    - Scarbutt 10y ago
      Since you used vim for 4 years, why didn't you add evil to emacs?
      - sigzero 10y ago
        It's not the same. Close but no.
      - Philipp__ 10y ago
        Good question. I dare to say EVIL is best Vim alternative. It's 98% percent there. But it felt wrong using Vim in Emacs. Then I wasn't using Vim nor Emacs, because I would mix commands from both (sometimes I would use C-s sometimes /?). So I told myself, if I felt comfortable using Vim, then why don't I try and learn Emacs so I can be comfortable in it too? And now after 6 months in Emacs I got to that standard productivity point in terms of navigating and chunking out the code. But the best aspect of Emacs for me personaly is, I want to do something with text, I just select it, press M-x, enter the word(noun,verb of thing I want to do with it) press TAB, see list of available commands and voila! It amazes me how many options there are in Emacs! Wonderful really!
- pryelluw 10y ago
  I've been using it since 1.2 and it works nicely. Very stable.
- z3t4 10y ago
  what would something 10x better than vim/emacs/vscode look like ?
  - Analemma_ 10y ago
    Gary Bernhardt's "A Whole New World" had a cool vision for what the future of editors might look like: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
    - nathcd 10y ago
      And here's[1] a project inspired by Gary's talk to design and implement a new escape protocol and a new virtual terminal to support these sorts of use-cases. (I'm not involved with the project.) [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    Isn't there a point of diminishing returns there? Also, isn't that a bit subjective? I'm glad VS Code exists, because it helps push other projects to be better.
sccxy 10y ago
Well done, Microsoft! So many new features again. Always happy to update and read the change log.
- arkitaip 10y ago
  Code is the first editor I've used that might actually replace Notepad++ as my always-open-editor-used-for-absolutely-everything.
lunchboxsushi 10y ago
keep these updates coming, it's a truly beautiful product. At times it makes me feel I should switch off Emacs for go/node development due to it's debugging being so nice versus using something like delv.
NicoJuicy 10y ago
Upvote when I see this, visual studio code is just awesome and makes me much more productive ( on Windows) I think there has to happen a lot when a version release won't make it to the front page :p
g_delgado14 10y ago
I've been using VSC since June-ish and I couldnt be happier. I never used Sublime (Atom was my go-to before VSC), but I don't think I'll be switching to another editor for a long time. Love the nodejs debugging too, and obviously the non-atom-like performance ;)
bbcbasic 10y ago
I still prefer using the free edition of VS2015. Maybe too stuck in my ways.
- Philipp__ 10y ago
  Ugh, Visual Studio != Visual Studio Code! Edit: My bad. Felt weird comparing VS to VSC, so that's the source of my confusion.
  - nick_ 10y ago
    I think that's what he's saying.
- TillE 10y ago
  I have no idea why anyone would prefer VS Code for C++ or C#/.NET work on Windows. For everything else, Visual Studio has never been particularly great.
  - komali2 10y ago
    I think a strong pull for it is its node debugger. At least for me. I'm not building giant C++ libraries (or however you C/C++/C# folks do) so it's just the right weight for what I do. Last time I tried to install Visual Studio it was like 9gbs for the core.
    - Scuds 10y ago
      VS 15 let you pare that down upon initial install. A services dev doesn't need a WPF or Winforms editor.
  - jhasse 10y ago
    Multiple cursors.
- autoreleasepool 10y ago
  Visual Studio Code really shines on Mac and Linux where there is no VS2015 available
arkitaip 10y ago
I'm really surprised by just how polished and fast Code is. It's like Atom but better in almost every regard with the exception of plugins available. Highly recommended.
- mirekrusin 10y ago
  I wonder if this could be a reason so many comments mention better speed than atom. Couple of months ago I've wiped out all extra plugins in atom and installed just ones I'm really using. Atom became much more responsive, very noticeable difference.
elcapitan 10y ago
The combo of Typescript and VS Code is really well done. Transitioning from JS to TS is well supported by documentation, IDE integration and language design. Apple once made people very happy when they adapted things and workflows that are important to Unix users. Now they're drifting away from that. Microsoft is going in the opposite direction and seems to listen to what developers really would like to see.
- k__ 10y ago
  Yes. With TS2 the type gathering is much easier, but there are still many libs out there with outdated type definitions or none at all. They got this "allowJs" flag, which I found a good idea, but I never got it to work.
Lord_Zane 10y ago
I recently switch from atom, but the one thing I hate is that it doesn't save open files or folders between runs
- kovrik 10y ago
  It does (or maybe it is 'Project Manager' extension). Try it out.
  - Lord_Zane 10y ago
    Tried Project Manager, useful but didn't keep the folder open :(. And I checked my settings, I have "window.reopenFolders": "all"
- sumitgt 10y ago
  It does for me. I'm not using any particular extension.
- 1wd 10y ago
  That's the main reason I don't use it. The other is that there's no way to hide the buttons on the left. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1105 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1105
- Tyriar 10y ago
  If you mean keeping track of dirty files between sessions (aka hot exit), work started during this release and it should come to stable in v1.8. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101
- komali2 10y ago
  That's weird, it does for me if if I don't crash. I remember specifically closing and reopening when I have my files just right so that they'd still be like that if it crashed lol.
eDameXxX 10y ago
I really like their openess on Github[1] and fact that they're using Projects feature[2] [1]https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode [2]https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/projects https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/projects
addicted 10y ago
When MS gets into something, they really get into it. VS Code has exceeded pretty much all my expectations with the pace it has been progressing at.
- komali2 10y ago
  The biggest thing for me has been the consistency. They already had an amazing IDE (Visual Studio), then they buckled down and made an amazing paired-down version (VSCode). It works well, does all the things I'd want and then some. Compare to Google releasing a chat client / message handler (google voice app), another one (hangouts), taking away functionality (removing shared sms/hangouts convos), then releasing two more chat apps (allo/duo). Or countless other occasions they've done this. I was just thinking today after yesterday's HN thread on the new Macbook and "everything wrong with it." People were complaining that nobody can really match the build quality of Apple, which is a shame because it'd be great to have a windows / linux device with high build quality (that isn't hacky). Imagine if Microsoft put their weight behind manufacturing a dope laptop like Google has been trying to do with the Pixel phone?
  - sxg 10y ago
    What about the Surface Book?
    - Devagamster 10y ago
      the surface book is getting there but it still crashes occasionally when disconnecting the screen. not build quality per se but definitely not apple-like
      - chrismorgan 10y ago
        I’ve had a Surface Book for five months or so and used it heavily, detatching it quite commonly; I’ve had it BSOD from detaching the screen once, 22 days ago. But I’m in the Insider Preview so I’m using pre-release software, so my experience is not necessarily representative. (It could plausibly crash more or less commonly.) But on the build quality thing: I got a Surface Book because, as David said concerning the sword of Goliath, there is none like it. It’s not just build quality (which is really solid), it’s also the touchscreen and pen input and detachability.
kentor 10y ago
The vscodevim vim bindings have improved greatly since a couple of months ago and is comparable to Sublime's vintage. These features are still missing and are keeping me from switching completely from Sublime: - Project wide symbol fuzzy search (cmd+shift+r in sublime) - Read from stdin (`git show | code`)
Scarbutt 10y ago
Keymaps for Sublime and Atom They are on a mission.
- tjalex 10y ago
  I was so excited, but it turns out there's still no middle click for block selection :(
  - k__ 10y ago
    I like to read these release discussions so much. Everyone has their pet feature, most of them stuff that I never use or didn't even know they existed. I personally like ctrl+/ to comment out blocks or mark stuff from the integrated terminal, both didn't work the last time I tried it.
    - kwood 10y ago
      Commenting out is there, you can search the keyboard shortcut settings to find the proper key. Actually, there are multiple commands on that subject: - editor.action.commentLine toggles comments - editor.action.addCommentLine & editor.action.removeCommentLine - editor.action.blockComment for block comments
antarrah 10y ago
I can't see horizontal layouts. I reinstalled from scratch and still can't see it.
- elcapitan 10y ago
  "To enable horizontal layout for the current workspace, use: The View menu Toggle Editor Group Layout."
  - antarrah 10y ago
    Ah, it's one or the other. That sucks but thanks for the clarification.
elcapitan 10y ago
I was wondering, like there is usually a "recommended plugins" list for Vim, does such a thing already exist for VS code?
- codycraven 10y ago
  Already exists, use the extensions panel (the square icon in the left most side of VSCode)
  - elcapitan 10y ago
    Thanks, knew the extensions panel, but not the "recommended" and "popular" parts.
legulere 10y ago
The Keyboard Shortcuts Reference reminds me that I always wanted to have a keyboard shortcut spaced repetition learning program where you actually have to press the key combinations. Maybe somebody could write an extension to VSCode.
nixos 10y ago
The one unfortunate thing about it is that it doesn't work/isn't packaged for Raspberry Pi. I don't understand why they don't make a package for the pi, if it's a JS app anyways
- eugeneionesco 10y ago
  https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#build-and-run-from-source https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...
  - nixos 10y ago
    Doesn't compile on my system.
- nixos 10y ago
  What I also don't understand is why doesn't Debian package it? Is it not fully free or does it have licencing issues like Atom?
  - scott_karana 10y ago
    It would need a maintainer, and would have to work its way through unstable->testing->stable too. Is there even an official Debian that runs of RasPi, anyways? Thought Raspbian was a fan effort that resurrected an old armf fork or similar.
    - nixos 10y ago
      https://michaelfranzl.com/2016/10/31/raspberry-pi-debian-stretch/ https://michaelfranzl.com/2016/10/31/raspberry-pi-debian-str...
- headmelted 10y ago
  From above, but: I'm currently working on nightlies for ARM and Intel linux-based systems (including Raspberry Pi and [Chromebook, Android] <- under Debian jails). I could really use one or more Raspberry Pi 2/3 testers on a Debian distro (ideally Raspbian) for early feedback. Hoping to announce the project on HN properly myself when it's ready (it's a very early state, although extensions are working), so I'd ask for discretion of whoever feels like helping me out.
cyberferret 10y ago
As much as I wanted to like Atom over VS Code, I find myself changing and starting most of my new projects in VS Code exclusively. One thing that surprised me that VS Code didn't have was multiple cursors?? (like Atom and Sublime have by default). I didn't realise how much I use that feature (for renaming variables in a short procedure/function block etc). There is probably a plugin for that somewhere, I guess.
- mgottein 10y ago
  It does have multiple cursors. See https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_multiple-selections-multicursor https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_multip...
  - cyberferret 10y ago
    Ah, Thanks - I see now the shortcut is [Alt-click] as opposed to [Cmd-click] in the other two editors. I just didn't dig around enough to find the right key combination. But I guess this shows how ingrained muscle memory and habits are hard to change, and why certain editors remain people's favourites.
    - nullstyle 10y ago
      Be warned though... this is one area where vscode is noticeably worse than atom or sublime; There's no alt-click-drag support so making a rectangular edit is much more work; you manually create the correct selection on each line. It's one of the few things I miss from Atom (and one of the main reasons I switched to textmate way way back).
      - Already__Taken 10y ago
        alt+shift+click-drag mate. Drag a rectangle and hit an arrow key seems fastest to make a column.
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addicted 10y ago
I love using VIM to edit, but stuff like the following makes it hard for me to resist switching. "ATA makes typings files almost invisible. A TypeScript language server that has ATA enabled watches your package.json files and automatically installs the typings files of all dependencies in a cache on your file system. It does the same when it finds references to well known client-side libraries. When you then invoke IntelliSense, the TypeScript server uses the typings files in the cache."
- chrismonsanto 10y ago
  There's no need to switch editors for that. The language servers can be used by any editor that supports the language server protocol. As far as I know nobody has written a plugin for Vim yet, but here's a discussion issue on the neovim tracker: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5522 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5522
  - justinmk 10y ago
    Also, async completers like deoplete[1] offer non-blocking completion. However... > stuff like the following makes it hard for me to resist switching. I don't think one should "resist". IDEs (VS code is an IDE, at this point) are very powerful. I really wish vim-modes would go away; I would like to see Neovim embedded in VS code and friends, instead. By "embed" I mean: nvim is the text editor, it does everything; it lives in the "document" area of the IDE; and you can bind nvim keys to IDE functions/commands (such as "Open Type..."). [1] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
  - dannysu 10y ago
    Try Tsuquyomi: https://github.com/Quramy/tsuquyomi https://github.com/Quramy/tsuquyomi It works.
- johnfn 10y ago
  Hey, I'm one of the developers of VSCodeVim, and I'd encourage you to try out our extension and see how it works for you. You could get the best of both worlds! :)
komali2 10y ago
Ah haha this is too funny, I just this morning caved from trying to have a functioning version of Ubuntu on the macbook work gave me, booted back into OSX, and spent a good 30 minutes scrolling through the VSCode keyboard shortcuts JSON, writing down the ones I was interested in relearning on post-its and lining them around my monitor. And not four hours later they release a pretty little printable PDF. Not very on topic but I hope some of you can at least get a hoot from my misery.
- sgarman 10y ago
  Looks like they also added bindings from the other popular editors so if you were using those you won't have to learn anything.
- santaclaus 10y ago
  Seriously why don't all software projects do this? It is a no brainer!
- Achshar 10y ago
  It's not like it was very difficult to have a simple key binding list before the update. There are many json to html table websites out there, or you could just paste it in vs code and use multiple cursors to remove all the json syntax in like 10 seconds.
  - hashhar 10y ago
    No, you use regexes for that.
Pharylon 10y ago
I recently started doing more and more javascript font-end work as opposed to C# backend stuff. So, of course, I started with Atom. But I kept having issues with it, and ended up playing around with VS Code and loving it. As someone who really loves the C# language, I was really questioning if I liked VS Code just because it was Microsoft. Was I some kind of Microsoft fanboy? I'm glad to see a lot of the "front end" community embracing it - it's weirdly validating to me. :)
- richie5um 10y ago
  Don't worry about that. It really is that good. [Long-time Mac and Vim user.]
- pitaj 10y ago
  It really is remarkable. You wouldn't think that an editor based on the same engine would be this significantly better than atom, but vs code continues to defeat atom in performance and native features.
EmmEff 10y ago
I typically bounce between vim and Atom for Python development, with occasional forays into VSC. VSC has come along very nicely to the point where I may just make it my full time GUI editor. Can anybody recommend some must have plugins for Python development on VSC?
- tjalex 10y ago
  https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.python https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam... is fantastic, and I haven't felt the need to install anything beyond that (for Python specifically).
- ssebastianj 10y ago
  - Python for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.python https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam... - Django Template: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn.django-html https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn... - Django Snippets: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn.django-snippets https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn...
forgetsusername 10y ago
Not a negative comment in the thread so far. That's amazing for something Microsoft, as anyone who's been around here can attest. There's a corner being turned here; time to buy MSFT?
- jlgaddis 10y ago
  Sure, if you wanna buy when $MSFT is the highest it's been since the dot com era. Right about five months ago would've been a good time, though.
- tonyplee 10y ago
  VSCode is very good, free but doesn't make $ for share holder. But you should check out the redit thread on Windows 10.
- skoocda 10y ago
  I mean, it's been a big couple weeks of releases. Between Surface Studio, the new speech recognition results, Teams, and this VSCode update (barring the npm issue) they seem to be really hitting their stride, in a way that hasn't been seen in years. Just in time to start clawing back tons of market share from Apple, too. But I'm sure 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
- Maken 10y ago
  My only complain is that they still don't allow mixing vertical and horizontal layout splits. That aside, VSCode is a quite good code editor.
lhlmgr 10y ago
Actually, I'm not a fan boy of something (except hockey, basketball, .. nevermind). However, Visual Studio is awesome! thanks a lot!
forrestthewoods 10y ago
Sometimes throwing everything out and starting over is bad. But you know what? Sometimes it's pretty damned good. Amazing how quickly you can iterate when you throw out all the cruft.
smegel 10y ago
It's interesting they base this on NodeJS instead of Chakra.
- sumitgt 10y ago
  Isn't Chakra a alternative to V8 as opposed to NodeJS? There is a variant of NodeJS, that is based on Chakra instead of V8, but it might not be mature enough to use here I guess.
- Scuds 10y ago
  It'd have to come down to Electron supporting Chakra. This is the editor, not the base.
overcast 10y ago
Dear Microsoft, PLEASE native SFTP sync support. I will switch from Sublime permanently.
- uola 10y ago
  Why not use git?
  - Already__Taken 10y ago
    Sometimes your cheap shared hosts don't have git on the other end.
    - tonyplee 10y ago
      You should try Digital Ocean $5/month. Have root access, etc. Is there a shared host cheaper than that?
      - vially 10y ago
        I don't know if there is any shared host cheaper than that (I suppose there are but I'm too lazy to check right now), but sometimes the appeal in using a shared host is in some of their features which you don't get in a VPS (e.g.: cpanel).
        tonyplee 10y ago
        Also be very careful, with "Dirty COW" hack, anyone can become root as long as they can run their own binary on any shared host.
  - eugeneionesco 10y ago
    How can I use git to connect remotely to a server and edit a file?
  - codedokode 10y ago
    Git deployment requires you to make commits. I prefer having a find + rsync based script that finds modified files and uploads them via SSH.
kinkdr 10y ago
Kudos to MS for Visual Studio Code and Typescript for bringing a bit of sanity to the world of JS.
didibus 10y ago
I've tried it, but I'm not as big a fan of the UX, so I'm sticking with Atom. Also, Atom is easier to customize to your liking, I've already written custom commands for it and modified the CSS. Also themes are lacking in VS Code. What I would like to see is Atom embracing the IDE to the same level VS Code is doing. If Atom had a proper debugger UX that all language could use, and better auto-complete. Those are the only things I find better in VS Code.
- iamdave 10y ago
  Thing I like the most about Atom is it's integration with Github for plugins, and even issues for those plugins. Last week there was a bug introduced in the latest build impacting split pane diff, error came up, with a link "Click here to submit an issue". I clicked it, and instead of taking me to a submission form, it intelligently took me to an issue already made and being discussed. I'm very impressed with it as an editor (so impressed it got me to divorce Sublime), but I am curious to give VSS a whirl on of these days.
- kakuri 10y ago
  VSCode supports TextMate themes, which there are very very many of. http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai
legohead 10y ago
I'm going to have to rate this as "probably never going to work". I really wanted it to succeed, because I actually like Microsoft and want a new editor, but the pure amount of ignorance this thing began with and continues to display is just too much. * Didn't launch with tabs, a plugin system, or code folding * Still no Projects or Workspace. You can open a "Folder", which behaves like a workspace, but you can only have one open at a time. * When you search/find-in-files, it uses the left UI element, which is just dumb for search in code as you can only see about 20 characters per line. Yeah you can expand the window, but do you want to do that every time? * Can't drag the UI elements and attach them somewhere else, which is a common staple of modern GUIs. This would fix the search "problem" * No support for FTP or SSH as far as I can tell (I do see an extension or two) When it wasn't launched with tabs, I gave it the benefit of the doubt thinking they were just releasing something Alpha to get a feel for the market. But they consistently can't put out common sense, modern day features. I feel like a couple guys at MS got bored and decided to randomly work on an editor without researching what is great about other editors first. Sorry for the harshness of this post, I'm just disappointed, and love code editors.
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- whatever_dude 10y ago
  You can have different instances of VSC open if you want to use 2 different workspaces at the same time. On Windows I just right-click the task bar and do "New Window" for that.
reledi 10y ago
As an Atom user, I gotta say this looks like a solid release and I'm excited to give VS Code another try. Well done!
lojack 10y ago
Mostly ruby developer here these days. Just installed VSCode, installed a Ruby plugin (with the required ruby-debug-ide prereq), and opened a project. Debugger seems to just work. Very impressive. Tried the vim bindings, doesn't seem to be working so well. This is something I'm used to -- vim bindings rarely work well outside of Vim. Basics like "diw" (delete inside word) don't work though. I'll probably stick with Vim for my day-to-day editing, but you can count on me using VSCode for debugging. Not a big fan of Rubymine -- too sluggish for my tastes.
- kentor 10y ago
  Which extension are you using? I'm using vscodevim and diw, ciw, and the likes work.
  - lojack 10y ago
    Was using vimStyle, I'll try some of the other ones.
- whatever_dude 10y ago
  Which vim plugin did you use? There's 4 different ones.
whatever_dude 10y ago
I gotta say, the speed with which they add new features to VSC is incredible.
santaclaus 10y ago
I wish wish wish MS would add built in, offline spell checking. The plugins I've tried are pretty buggy, and I would love to spell check markdown and documentation. (Also, spell check applied only to comments would be cool too!)
smegel 10y ago
Twitter: > Whoops! 1.7 release rolled back to 1.6.1 due to issue downloading definition files for IntelliSense
kid0m4n 10y ago
They had to rollback the update: > Unfortunately, we needed to roll back the 1.7 release of VS Code. One of the great new features in 1.7 is the automatic acquisition of typing files when writing JavaScript and TypeScript. These typings files drive the IntelliSense (code completions) experience in the tool. The feature was so great that we started to overload the npmjs.org service. The right thing to do in the short term was to revert the release. If you had already upgraded to 1.7 you would have been prompted to install another update and you should now be at 1.6.1 again. We apologize for this inconvenience and we're working hard to make both short and long term fixes to bring you a great editing experience in VS Code.
- neves 10y ago
  It was funny, I've just installed vscode in an old machine and came to HN. On the first page there as a newer version. Holy Shit! They've updated between the install and visiting the page. I was almost buying Microsft
- criswell 10y ago
  I was so confused. Thank you.
- mycall 10y ago
  Auto downgrade. That's a first.
- deleted 10y ago
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- Maken 10y ago
  They already published a recovery build. Now updating 1.7 will install 1.7.1.
aikah 10y ago
lol, they just rolled back to 1.6 since users were DDOSing npmjs.org ;)
neves 10y ago
I couldn't find a good tutorial about using VSCode for Python development. I'd like to setup debugging, intellisense and the interactive shell, but the info is sparse. Do you have any suggestion?
- kirse 10y ago
  Did this tutorial not cover everything you needed for VSCode? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python Also, not sure if you are on Windows, but regular VS + PyTools makes for a fantastic python IDE.
- sumsted 10y ago
  I'm thinking of moving away from pycharm when this year runs out and moving to vs code + python. It has full debug, scm, virtualenv support (which was broken in pycharm 2016.x for a time) and intellisense. I would still use Brackets for html and css because I love quick-edit, the ability to edit a css rule or color by hovering and hitting ctl-e.
  - neves 10y ago
    PyCharm community edition is very good. Maybe all the features aren't necessary. But VSCode would allow me to use it in other environments.
wbercx 10y ago
Have been using VSCode for months now and I like it a lot. Only thing I am missing coming from PhpStorm is a good merge tool. For some reason I found JetBrains' one really appealing and I struggle to find 3rd party ones that do not feel clunky.
orbitingpluto 10y ago
I liked VS Code when I tried it. But... It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my adoption. I'd rather stay with Atom, vim, or even Eclipse.
- tw04 10y ago
  Umm, you can disable it globally. They have pretty amazing documentation, 3 seconds of searching later: http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#... Windows Close VS Code. Open the command prompt. Type cd %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Visual Studio Code\resources\app Type notepad product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false. Save the file via CTRL+S and exit Notepad. Collection of usage data should now be disabled. OS X / Linux Close VS Code. Open the terminal For: Mac Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app Linux Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Resources/app Type vi product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false Save the file via Esc ZZ. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.
  - orbitingpluto 10y ago
    Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes. Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...
  - mook 10y ago
    The current docs ( https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di... ) seems to indicate that it's just a normal pref now, you don't need to edit the app to do it. I wasn't able to figure out what version readthedocs was last generated for.
    - orbitingpluto 10y ago
      Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.
dbrgn 10y ago
Interesting to see that all screenshots are taken on a Mac...
headmelted 10y ago
I'm currently working on nightly builds for ARM and Intel linux-based systems (including Raspberry Pi and [Chromebook, Android] <- under Debian jails). I could really use one or more Raspberry Pi 2/3 testers on a Debian distro (ideally Raspbian) for early feedback. Hoping to announce the project on HN properly myself when it's ready (it's a very early state, although extensions are working), so I'd ask for discretion of whoever feels like helping me out.
- hashhar 10y ago
  Try posting to reddit. On the respective product subs.

454 points by mpalme 10y ago

pomber 10y ago

CSS completions in HTML, I was waiting for that one (for Polymer projects).

od14 10y ago
Intellisense for script tags in HTML still not working though...

Philipp__ 10y ago

Microsoft and TypeScript team are doing amazing work with this editor! There are so many interesting features in it, gave it a shot few weeks ago and was really satisfied. And it is probably the first electron app that didn't feel like rest of the bunch, that are pretty much hogs and not very responsive (especially when we talk about editors and IDEs). But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. It just got so much under my skin, and I got so much used to them that using GUI editor after few years of them just feels odd. And I use them for 5 years. I can't imagine how it is for people that used them for 20+ years...

codycraven 10y ago
I've been using the Vim extension for quite a while and it's become fairly robust. I think it bests jVi in Netbeans.
- ChrisLTD 10y ago
  Which vim extension in particular?
  - adt2bt 10y ago
    Not GP but probably VSCodeVim
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- gosukiwi 10y ago
  Does it support visual block mode now?
  - johnfn 10y ago
    VSCodeVim does support visual block mode.
- FrancoDiaz 10y ago
  I really miss leaders though.
divbit 10y ago
>But you know, I can't hang Emacs and Vim on the wall and leave them there. I never got the hang of Emacs, but there is a decent vim extension (there are a bunch) called vimStyle which at least gets you the vim-like code navigation.
- Philipp__ 10y ago
  I had really hard time for 3 months (after using vim for 4 years). I just uninstalled everything else, and first week was painful, but it was really fun since I wanted to learn Lisp/Scheme, so I touched ELisp while playing/tweaking with emacs. After that I just couldn't go back to Vim. I started tweaking and digging. The point of Emacs is that you can make it be whatever you want. It can be both amazingly ugly and beautiful, minimal or heavy like an OS. In the end, what kept me on Emacs to be sincere was auto indentation and perfect completion system. I always had to tweak and fix those things in Vim. In Emacs, nothing, I just write code (yeah, navigating code in Vim is faster, but Emacs has some really neat ides like rectangles).
  - Scarbutt 10y ago
    Since you used vim for 4 years, why didn't you add evil to emacs?
    - sigzero 10y ago
      It's not the same. Close but no.
    - Philipp__ 10y ago
      Good question. I dare to say EVIL is best Vim alternative. It's 98% percent there. But it felt wrong using Vim in Emacs. Then I wasn't using Vim nor Emacs, because I would mix commands from both (sometimes I would use C-s sometimes /?). So I told myself, if I felt comfortable using Vim, then why don't I try and learn Emacs so I can be comfortable in it too? And now after 6 months in Emacs I got to that standard productivity point in terms of navigating and chunking out the code. But the best aspect of Emacs for me personaly is, I want to do something with text, I just select it, press M-x, enter the word(noun,verb of thing I want to do with it) press TAB, see list of available commands and voila! It amazes me how many options there are in Emacs! Wonderful really!
pryelluw 10y ago
I've been using it since 1.2 and it works nicely. Very stable.
z3t4 10y ago
what would something 10x better than vim/emacs/vscode look like ?
- Analemma_ 10y ago
  Gary Bernhardt's "A Whole New World" had a cool vision for what the future of editors might look like: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
  - nathcd 10y ago
    And here's[1] a project inspired by Gary's talk to design and implement a new escape protocol and a new virtual terminal to support these sorts of use-cases. (I'm not involved with the project.) [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  Isn't there a point of diminishing returns there? Also, isn't that a bit subjective? I'm glad VS Code exists, because it helps push other projects to be better.

sccxy 10y ago

Well done, Microsoft! So many new features again. Always happy to update and read the change log.

arkitaip 10y ago
Code is the first editor I've used that might actually replace Notepad++ as my always-open-editor-used-for-absolutely-everything.

lunchboxsushi 10y ago

keep these updates coming, it's a truly beautiful product. At times it makes me feel I should switch off Emacs for go/node development due to it's debugging being so nice versus using something like delv.

NicoJuicy 10y ago

Upvote when I see this, visual studio code is just awesome and makes me much more productive ( on Windows) I think there has to happen a lot when a version release won't make it to the front page :p

g_delgado14 10y ago

I've been using VSC since June-ish and I couldnt be happier. I never used Sublime (Atom was my go-to before VSC), but I don't think I'll be switching to another editor for a long time. Love the nodejs debugging too, and obviously the non-atom-like performance ;)

bbcbasic 10y ago

I still prefer using the free edition of VS2015. Maybe too stuck in my ways.

Philipp__ 10y ago
Ugh, Visual Studio != Visual Studio Code! Edit: My bad. Felt weird comparing VS to VSC, so that's the source of my confusion.
- nick_ 10y ago
  I think that's what he's saying.
TillE 10y ago
I have no idea why anyone would prefer VS Code for C++ or C#/.NET work on Windows. For everything else, Visual Studio has never been particularly great.
- komali2 10y ago
  I think a strong pull for it is its node debugger. At least for me. I'm not building giant C++ libraries (or however you C/C++/C# folks do) so it's just the right weight for what I do. Last time I tried to install Visual Studio it was like 9gbs for the core.
  - Scuds 10y ago
    VS 15 let you pare that down upon initial install. A services dev doesn't need a WPF or Winforms editor.
- jhasse 10y ago
  Multiple cursors.
autoreleasepool 10y ago
Visual Studio Code really shines on Mac and Linux where there is no VS2015 available

arkitaip 10y ago

I'm really surprised by just how polished and fast Code is. It's like Atom but better in almost every regard with the exception of plugins available. Highly recommended.

mirekrusin 10y ago
I wonder if this could be a reason so many comments mention better speed than atom. Couple of months ago I've wiped out all extra plugins in atom and installed just ones I'm really using. Atom became much more responsive, very noticeable difference.

elcapitan 10y ago

The combo of Typescript and VS Code is really well done. Transitioning from JS to TS is well supported by documentation, IDE integration and language design. Apple once made people very happy when they adapted things and workflows that are important to Unix users. Now they're drifting away from that. Microsoft is going in the opposite direction and seems to listen to what developers really would like to see.

k__ 10y ago
Yes. With TS2 the type gathering is much easier, but there are still many libs out there with outdated type definitions or none at all. They got this "allowJs" flag, which I found a good idea, but I never got it to work.

Lord_Zane 10y ago

I recently switch from atom, but the one thing I hate is that it doesn't save open files or folders between runs

kovrik 10y ago
It does (or maybe it is 'Project Manager' extension). Try it out.
- Lord_Zane 10y ago
  Tried Project Manager, useful but didn't keep the folder open :(. And I checked my settings, I have "window.reopenFolders": "all"
sumitgt 10y ago
It does for me. I'm not using any particular extension.
1wd 10y ago
That's the main reason I don't use it. The other is that there's no way to hide the buttons on the left. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1105 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1105
Tyriar 10y ago
If you mean keeping track of dirty files between sessions (aka hot exit), work started during this release and it should come to stable in v1.8. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101
komali2 10y ago
That's weird, it does for me if if I don't crash. I remember specifically closing and reopening when I have my files just right so that they'd still be like that if it crashed lol.

eDameXxX 10y ago

I really like their openess on Github[1] and fact that they're using Projects feature[2] [1]https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode [2]https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/projects https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/projects

addicted 10y ago

When MS gets into something, they really get into it. VS Code has exceeded pretty much all my expectations with the pace it has been progressing at.

komali2 10y ago
The biggest thing for me has been the consistency. They already had an amazing IDE (Visual Studio), then they buckled down and made an amazing paired-down version (VSCode). It works well, does all the things I'd want and then some. Compare to Google releasing a chat client / message handler (google voice app), another one (hangouts), taking away functionality (removing shared sms/hangouts convos), then releasing two more chat apps (allo/duo). Or countless other occasions they've done this. I was just thinking today after yesterday's HN thread on the new Macbook and "everything wrong with it." People were complaining that nobody can really match the build quality of Apple, which is a shame because it'd be great to have a windows / linux device with high build quality (that isn't hacky). Imagine if Microsoft put their weight behind manufacturing a dope laptop like Google has been trying to do with the Pixel phone?
- sxg 10y ago
  What about the Surface Book?
  - Devagamster 10y ago
    the surface book is getting there but it still crashes occasionally when disconnecting the screen. not build quality per se but definitely not apple-like
    - chrismorgan 10y ago
      I’ve had a Surface Book for five months or so and used it heavily, detatching it quite commonly; I’ve had it BSOD from detaching the screen once, 22 days ago. But I’m in the Insider Preview so I’m using pre-release software, so my experience is not necessarily representative. (It could plausibly crash more or less commonly.) But on the build quality thing: I got a Surface Book because, as David said concerning the sword of Goliath, there is none like it. It’s not just build quality (which is really solid), it’s also the touchscreen and pen input and detachability.

kentor 10y ago

The vscodevim vim bindings have improved greatly since a couple of months ago and is comparable to Sublime's vintage. These features are still missing and are keeping me from switching completely from Sublime: - Project wide symbol fuzzy search (cmd+shift+r in sublime) - Read from stdin (`git show | code`)

Scarbutt 10y ago

Keymaps for Sublime and Atom They are on a mission.

tjalex 10y ago
I was so excited, but it turns out there's still no middle click for block selection :(
- k__ 10y ago
  I like to read these release discussions so much. Everyone has their pet feature, most of them stuff that I never use or didn't even know they existed. I personally like ctrl+/ to comment out blocks or mark stuff from the integrated terminal, both didn't work the last time I tried it.
  - kwood 10y ago
    Commenting out is there, you can search the keyboard shortcut settings to find the proper key. Actually, there are multiple commands on that subject: - editor.action.commentLine toggles comments - editor.action.addCommentLine & editor.action.removeCommentLine - editor.action.blockComment for block comments

antarrah 10y ago

I can't see horizontal layouts. I reinstalled from scratch and still can't see it.

elcapitan 10y ago
"To enable horizontal layout for the current workspace, use: The View menu Toggle Editor Group Layout."
- antarrah 10y ago
  Ah, it's one or the other. That sucks but thanks for the clarification.

elcapitan 10y ago

I was wondering, like there is usually a "recommended plugins" list for Vim, does such a thing already exist for VS code?

codycraven 10y ago
Already exists, use the extensions panel (the square icon in the left most side of VSCode)
- elcapitan 10y ago
  Thanks, knew the extensions panel, but not the "recommended" and "popular" parts.

legulere 10y ago

The Keyboard Shortcuts Reference reminds me that I always wanted to have a keyboard shortcut spaced repetition learning program where you actually have to press the key combinations. Maybe somebody could write an extension to VSCode.

nixos 10y ago

The one unfortunate thing about it is that it doesn't work/isn't packaged for Raspberry Pi. I don't understand why they don't make a package for the pi, if it's a JS app anyways

eugeneionesco 10y ago
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#build-and-run-from-source https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/How-to-Contribute#b...
- nixos 10y ago
  Doesn't compile on my system.
nixos 10y ago
What I also don't understand is why doesn't Debian package it? Is it not fully free or does it have licencing issues like Atom?
- scott_karana 10y ago
  It would need a maintainer, and would have to work its way through unstable->testing->stable too. Is there even an official Debian that runs of RasPi, anyways? Thought Raspbian was a fan effort that resurrected an old armf fork or similar.
  - nixos 10y ago
    https://michaelfranzl.com/2016/10/31/raspberry-pi-debian-stretch/ https://michaelfranzl.com/2016/10/31/raspberry-pi-debian-str...
headmelted 10y ago
From above, but: I'm currently working on nightlies for ARM and Intel linux-based systems (including Raspberry Pi and [Chromebook, Android] <- under Debian jails). I could really use one or more Raspberry Pi 2/3 testers on a Debian distro (ideally Raspbian) for early feedback. Hoping to announce the project on HN properly myself when it's ready (it's a very early state, although extensions are working), so I'd ask for discretion of whoever feels like helping me out.

cyberferret 10y ago

As much as I wanted to like Atom over VS Code, I find myself changing and starting most of my new projects in VS Code exclusively. One thing that surprised me that VS Code didn't have was multiple cursors?? (like Atom and Sublime have by default). I didn't realise how much I use that feature (for renaming variables in a short procedure/function block etc). There is probably a plugin for that somewhere, I guess.

mgottein 10y ago
It does have multiple cursors. See https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_multiple-selections-multicursor https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/codebasics#_multip...
- cyberferret 10y ago
  Ah, Thanks - I see now the shortcut is [Alt-click] as opposed to [Cmd-click] in the other two editors. I just didn't dig around enough to find the right key combination. But I guess this shows how ingrained muscle memory and habits are hard to change, and why certain editors remain people's favourites.
  - nullstyle 10y ago
    Be warned though... this is one area where vscode is noticeably worse than atom or sublime; There's no alt-click-drag support so making a rectangular edit is much more work; you manually create the correct selection on each line. It's one of the few things I miss from Atom (and one of the main reasons I switched to textmate way way back).
    - Already__Taken 10y ago
      alt+shift+click-drag mate. Drag a rectangle and hit an arrow key seems fastest to make a column.
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addicted 10y ago

I love using VIM to edit, but stuff like the following makes it hard for me to resist switching. "ATA makes typings files almost invisible. A TypeScript language server that has ATA enabled watches your package.json files and automatically installs the typings files of all dependencies in a cache on your file system. It does the same when it finds references to well known client-side libraries. When you then invoke IntelliSense, the TypeScript server uses the typings files in the cache."

chrismonsanto 10y ago
There's no need to switch editors for that. The language servers can be used by any editor that supports the language server protocol. As far as I know nobody has written a plugin for Vim yet, but here's a discussion issue on the neovim tracker: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5522 https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5522
- justinmk 10y ago
  Also, async completers like deoplete[1] offer non-blocking completion. However... > stuff like the following makes it hard for me to resist switching. I don't think one should "resist". IDEs (VS code is an IDE, at this point) are very powerful. I really wish vim-modes would go away; I would like to see Neovim embedded in VS code and friends, instead. By "embed" I mean: nvim is the text editor, it does everything; it lives in the "document" area of the IDE; and you can bind nvim keys to IDE functions/commands (such as "Open Type..."). [1] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
- dannysu 10y ago
  Try Tsuquyomi: https://github.com/Quramy/tsuquyomi https://github.com/Quramy/tsuquyomi It works.
johnfn 10y ago
Hey, I'm one of the developers of VSCodeVim, and I'd encourage you to try out our extension and see how it works for you. You could get the best of both worlds! :)

komali2 10y ago

Ah haha this is too funny, I just this morning caved from trying to have a functioning version of Ubuntu on the macbook work gave me, booted back into OSX, and spent a good 30 minutes scrolling through the VSCode keyboard shortcuts JSON, writing down the ones I was interested in relearning on post-its and lining them around my monitor. And not four hours later they release a pretty little printable PDF. Not very on topic but I hope some of you can at least get a hoot from my misery.

sgarman 10y ago
Looks like they also added bindings from the other popular editors so if you were using those you won't have to learn anything.
santaclaus 10y ago
Seriously why don't all software projects do this? It is a no brainer!
Achshar 10y ago
It's not like it was very difficult to have a simple key binding list before the update. There are many json to html table websites out there, or you could just paste it in vs code and use multiple cursors to remove all the json syntax in like 10 seconds.
- hashhar 10y ago
  No, you use regexes for that.

Pharylon 10y ago

I recently started doing more and more javascript font-end work as opposed to C# backend stuff. So, of course, I started with Atom. But I kept having issues with it, and ended up playing around with VS Code and loving it. As someone who really loves the C# language, I was really questioning if I liked VS Code just because it was Microsoft. Was I some kind of Microsoft fanboy? I'm glad to see a lot of the "front end" community embracing it - it's weirdly validating to me. :)

richie5um 10y ago
Don't worry about that. It really is that good. [Long-time Mac and Vim user.]
pitaj 10y ago
It really is remarkable. You wouldn't think that an editor based on the same engine would be this significantly better than atom, but vs code continues to defeat atom in performance and native features.

EmmEff 10y ago

I typically bounce between vim and Atom for Python development, with occasional forays into VSC. VSC has come along very nicely to the point where I may just make it my full time GUI editor. Can anybody recommend some must have plugins for Python development on VSC?

tjalex 10y ago
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.python https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam... is fantastic, and I haven't felt the need to install anything beyond that (for Python specifically).
ssebastianj 10y ago
- Python for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.python https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayam... - Django Template: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn.django-html https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn... - Django Snippets: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn.django-snippets https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bibhasdn...

forgetsusername 10y ago

Not a negative comment in the thread so far. That's amazing for something Microsoft, as anyone who's been around here can attest. There's a corner being turned here; time to buy MSFT?

jlgaddis 10y ago
Sure, if you wanna buy when $MSFT is the highest it's been since the dot com era. Right about five months ago would've been a good time, though.
tonyplee 10y ago
VSCode is very good, free but doesn't make $ for share holder. But you should check out the redit thread on Windows 10.
skoocda 10y ago
I mean, it's been a big couple weeks of releases. Between Surface Studio, the new speech recognition results, Teams, and this VSCode update (barring the npm issue) they seem to be really hitting their stride, in a way that hasn't been seen in years. Just in time to start clawing back tons of market share from Apple, too. But I'm sure 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
Maken 10y ago
My only complain is that they still don't allow mixing vertical and horizontal layout splits. That aside, VSCode is a quite good code editor.

lhlmgr 10y ago

Actually, I'm not a fan boy of something (except hockey, basketball, .. nevermind). However, Visual Studio is awesome! thanks a lot!

forrestthewoods 10y ago

Sometimes throwing everything out and starting over is bad. But you know what? Sometimes it's pretty damned good. Amazing how quickly you can iterate when you throw out all the cruft.

smegel 10y ago

It's interesting they base this on NodeJS instead of Chakra.

sumitgt 10y ago
Isn't Chakra a alternative to V8 as opposed to NodeJS? There is a variant of NodeJS, that is based on Chakra instead of V8, but it might not be mature enough to use here I guess.
Scuds 10y ago
It'd have to come down to Electron supporting Chakra. This is the editor, not the base.

overcast 10y ago

Dear Microsoft, PLEASE native SFTP sync support. I will switch from Sublime permanently.

uola 10y ago
Why not use git?
- Already__Taken 10y ago
  Sometimes your cheap shared hosts don't have git on the other end.
  - tonyplee 10y ago
    You should try Digital Ocean $5/month. Have root access, etc. Is there a shared host cheaper than that?
    - vially 10y ago
      I don't know if there is any shared host cheaper than that (I suppose there are but I'm too lazy to check right now), but sometimes the appeal in using a shared host is in some of their features which you don't get in a VPS (e.g.: cpanel).
      - tonyplee 10y ago
        Also be very careful, with "Dirty COW" hack, anyone can become root as long as they can run their own binary on any shared host.
- eugeneionesco 10y ago
  How can I use git to connect remotely to a server and edit a file?
- codedokode 10y ago
  Git deployment requires you to make commits. I prefer having a find + rsync based script that finds modified files and uploads them via SSH.

kinkdr 10y ago

Kudos to MS for Visual Studio Code and Typescript for bringing a bit of sanity to the world of JS.

didibus 10y ago

I've tried it, but I'm not as big a fan of the UX, so I'm sticking with Atom. Also, Atom is easier to customize to your liking, I've already written custom commands for it and modified the CSS. Also themes are lacking in VS Code. What I would like to see is Atom embracing the IDE to the same level VS Code is doing. If Atom had a proper debugger UX that all language could use, and better auto-complete. Those are the only things I find better in VS Code.

iamdave 10y ago
Thing I like the most about Atom is it's integration with Github for plugins, and even issues for those plugins. Last week there was a bug introduced in the latest build impacting split pane diff, error came up, with a link "Click here to submit an issue". I clicked it, and instead of taking me to a submission form, it intelligently took me to an issue already made and being discussed. I'm very impressed with it as an editor (so impressed it got me to divorce Sublime), but I am curious to give VSS a whirl on of these days.
kakuri 10y ago
VSCode supports TextMate themes, which there are very very many of. http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/#!/editor/theme/Monokai

legohead 10y ago

I'm going to have to rate this as "probably never going to work". I really wanted it to succeed, because I actually like Microsoft and want a new editor, but the pure amount of ignorance this thing began with and continues to display is just too much. * Didn't launch with tabs, a plugin system, or code folding * Still no Projects or Workspace. You can open a "Folder", which behaves like a workspace, but you can only have one open at a time. * When you search/find-in-files, it uses the left UI element, which is just dumb for search in code as you can only see about 20 characters per line. Yeah you can expand the window, but do you want to do that every time? * Can't drag the UI elements and attach them somewhere else, which is a common staple of modern GUIs. This would fix the search "problem" * No support for FTP or SSH as far as I can tell (I do see an extension or two) When it wasn't launched with tabs, I gave it the benefit of the doubt thinking they were just releasing something Alpha to get a feel for the market. But they consistently can't put out common sense, modern day features. I feel like a couple guys at MS got bored and decided to randomly work on an editor without researching what is great about other editors first. Sorry for the harshness of this post, I'm just disappointed, and love code editors.

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whatever_dude 10y ago
You can have different instances of VSC open if you want to use 2 different workspaces at the same time. On Windows I just right-click the task bar and do "New Window" for that.

reledi 10y ago

As an Atom user, I gotta say this looks like a solid release and I'm excited to give VS Code another try. Well done!

lojack 10y ago

Mostly ruby developer here these days. Just installed VSCode, installed a Ruby plugin (with the required ruby-debug-ide prereq), and opened a project. Debugger seems to just work. Very impressive. Tried the vim bindings, doesn't seem to be working so well. This is something I'm used to -- vim bindings rarely work well outside of Vim. Basics like "diw" (delete inside word) don't work though. I'll probably stick with Vim for my day-to-day editing, but you can count on me using VSCode for debugging. Not a big fan of Rubymine -- too sluggish for my tastes.

kentor 10y ago
Which extension are you using? I'm using vscodevim and diw, ciw, and the likes work.
- lojack 10y ago
  Was using vimStyle, I'll try some of the other ones.
whatever_dude 10y ago
Which vim plugin did you use? There's 4 different ones.

whatever_dude 10y ago

I gotta say, the speed with which they add new features to VSC is incredible.

santaclaus 10y ago

I wish wish wish MS would add built in, offline spell checking. The plugins I've tried are pretty buggy, and I would love to spell check markdown and documentation. (Also, spell check applied only to comments would be cool too!)

smegel 10y ago

Twitter: > Whoops! 1.7 release rolled back to 1.6.1 due to issue downloading definition files for IntelliSense

kid0m4n 10y ago

They had to rollback the update: > Unfortunately, we needed to roll back the 1.7 release of VS Code. One of the great new features in 1.7 is the automatic acquisition of typing files when writing JavaScript and TypeScript. These typings files drive the IntelliSense (code completions) experience in the tool. The feature was so great that we started to overload the npmjs.org service. The right thing to do in the short term was to revert the release. If you had already upgraded to 1.7 you would have been prompted to install another update and you should now be at 1.6.1 again. We apologize for this inconvenience and we're working hard to make both short and long term fixes to bring you a great editing experience in VS Code.

neves 10y ago
It was funny, I've just installed vscode in an old machine and came to HN. On the first page there as a newer version. Holy Shit! They've updated between the install and visiting the page. I was almost buying Microsft
criswell 10y ago
I was so confused. Thank you.
mycall 10y ago
Auto downgrade. That's a first.
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Maken 10y ago
They already published a recovery build. Now updating 1.7 will install 1.7.1.

aikah 10y ago

lol, they just rolled back to 1.6 since users were DDOSing npmjs.org ;)

neves 10y ago

I couldn't find a good tutorial about using VSCode for Python development. I'd like to setup debugging, intellisense and the interactive shell, but the info is sparse. Do you have any suggestion?

kirse 10y ago
Did this tutorial not cover everything you needed for VSCode? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python Also, not sure if you are on Windows, but regular VS + PyTools makes for a fantastic python IDE.
sumsted 10y ago
I'm thinking of moving away from pycharm when this year runs out and moving to vs code + python. It has full debug, scm, virtualenv support (which was broken in pycharm 2016.x for a time) and intellisense. I would still use Brackets for html and css because I love quick-edit, the ability to edit a css rule or color by hovering and hitting ctl-e.
- neves 10y ago
  PyCharm community edition is very good. Maybe all the features aren't necessary. But VSCode would allow me to use it in other environments.

wbercx 10y ago

Have been using VSCode for months now and I like it a lot. Only thing I am missing coming from PhpStorm is a good merge tool. For some reason I found JetBrains' one really appealing and I struggle to find 3rd party ones that do not feel clunky.

orbitingpluto 10y ago

I liked VS Code when I tried it. But... It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my adoption. I'd rather stay with Atom, vim, or even Eclipse.

tw04 10y ago
Umm, you can disable it globally. They have pretty amazing documentation, 3 seconds of searching later: http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#... Windows Close VS Code. Open the command prompt. Type cd %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Visual Studio Code\resources\app Type notepad product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false. Save the file via CTRL+S and exit Notepad. Collection of usage data should now be disabled. OS X / Linux Close VS Code. Open the terminal For: Mac Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app Linux Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Resources/app Type vi product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false Save the file via Esc ZZ. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.
- orbitingpluto 10y ago
  Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes. Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...
- mook 10y ago
  The current docs ( https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di... ) seems to indicate that it's just a normal pref now, you don't need to edit the app to do it. I wasn't able to figure out what version readthedocs was last generated for.
  - orbitingpluto 10y ago
    Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.

dbrgn 10y ago

Interesting to see that all screenshots are taken on a Mac...

headmelted 10y ago

I'm currently working on nightly builds for ARM and Intel linux-based systems (including Raspberry Pi and [Chromebook, Android] <- under Debian jails). I could really use one or more Raspberry Pi 2/3 testers on a Debian distro (ideally Raspbian) for early feedback. Hoping to announce the project on HN properly myself when it's ready (it's a very early state, although extensions are working), so I'd ask for discretion of whoever feels like helping me out.

hashhar 10y ago
Try posting to reddit. On the respective product subs.