At the Build 2015, Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio Code. Latest Microsoft news is about the cross platform editor that has been created by the software giant in order to enhance the developer’s usability experience towards the editors they use. This editor is a light weight editor which can be used to write modern applications related to cloud and web which shall be able to run on Linux, OS X and Windows. The editor is under the preview process but since it is free, users can easily download it from the Microsoft’s website.
This has officially become the first editor produced by Microsoft which is cross platform in its true sense. The entire Visual Studio essence belongs only to Windows at the moment. However, this announcement has displayed the huge support that company has become familiar with for other platforms.
VP of Microsoft’s developer division said that, “A lot of people use Windows as their development environment, but we are also seeing a lot of people on Linux and Mac.” So instead of forcing them to change their platform, the company has taken another way round, that is, going to their platform. It’s seen that most developers that are on these platforms are satisfied with the code editor such as Sublime Text instead of an entire IDE in the form of Visual Studio.
The editor offers a built-in support for various languages to the developers. It shall also contain rich assistance for code and also the navigation for all the languages provided. A solid set of tools, that have been newly-added, will also be provided to the developers of JavaScript, ASP.NET 5, Node.js and TypeScript.
There have been all the standard tools added to the Visual Studio Code that the developers could expect a model editor be consisting of. It includes syntax highlighting, bracket matching, snippets and keyboard bindings. There are some of the company’s language features that are going to be available in this editor, it includes Roslyn project, for example. Microsoft news reports that the language services the company is building for Visual Studio Code shall be available for other editors as well.
There are high chances that this announcement will come as a surprise to many people. However, such announcement inclines with the path the developer group belonging to the company is on, be that the .NET Core being open sourced or unveiling of Visual Studio Community. Only couple of years ago, this announcement might have come as a shock but now it seems to be a pleasant surprise.
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