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I downloaded it a couple of months ago, had a quick play and pretty much forgot about it. Nothing wrong with it at first sight - it actually seems quite nice, but I continue to do most of my coding in the VS and SMS editors. Maybe it's something that will gradually worm its way in to my toolkit.
On the plus-side, Microsoft did give me a very nice T-shirt to advertise it.
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In my experience it is very hard to move an old-timer from the editor one used for years (vim, emacs, gedit), but I would say - give it a try...
I tried it on Fedora 23 (VM) and had no problem whatsoever...
I liked the debugging capabilities, built-in and for that I would recommend it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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To give a shot I tried VS Code on the Mac, but now staying away from using it. It starts slowly and doesnt work fine. So I like using Text Wrangler if XCode doesnt the job for some txt or xml files.
I am surprised (or not) that the VS Code has the same problems as on Windows: slow and glutty. Looks like it is the standard for developing software at Microsoft 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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It's always so funny to read one of those posts - I would not feel complete without it.
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Having attempted to set python up in VS and hearing the angst created by try to get Xamarin working I would certainly recommend it to a non windows user, but then I'm a bastard!!!
Seriously I could not in all faith recommend VS for other than VS core languages to anyone. I don't know of a better alternative so would keep out of the discussion.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Visual Studio Code is not the same thing as Visual Studio.
See link[^].
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That is something new I learned today, in which case I need to change me vote to I have no idea!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Incidentally, you might find Visual Studio Code easier to set up for Python development than Visual Studio.
With Code, it was just a matter of installing the Python extension. After doing that I was able to fire up a Python app in debug mode and set breakpoints to inspect some code that wasn't behaving as it should.
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Ryan Peden wrote: Incidentally, you might find Visual Studio Code easier to set up for Python development than Visual Studio.
In full VS (both 2013 and 2015) I couldn't get either Node Tools or Python Tools to work without their crashing the IDE on edit. So, next time I need to use those I'll try VS Code instead. I have Code installed, just haven't used it.
Kevin
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Code is particularly good for Node; support for running and debugging Node applications is built in.
Adding the Node.js type definitions file gives you good Intellisense for the entire Node standard library.
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I'll bear that in mind the next time I try Node. I've only had the chance to play so far, not used it for real.
Kevin
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What the hell is it?
And What is a non-windows language? 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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I immediately thought of Ratfor
But there is a version which will work under windows
Maybe SPL - never seen that outside Primos.
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See the link in my comment to Mycroft above - basically its a lightweight text editor with syntax highlighting and other language support, with plugins for many languages.
I would assume a "non-Windows language" is a language that is predominantly used on other platforms: C/C++, Python, and many more. Where VB, by contrast, is almost exclusively used on the Windows platform.
(VSCode actually supports both).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Fair dos - like others here I have no idea what it is.
Why would I use it, when I can use Visual Studio?
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It doesn't require setting up a project, it works well with languages not supported in Visual Studio, it runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. It has a quicker start up time.
I use it for almost everything other than .NET development now. I'd still favour Visual Studio for most debugging tasks though.
PS. Is Fair DOS a new MS-DOS compatible product?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ha ha...
Agreed. Question could have been better.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Quote: And What is a non-windows language? D'Oh! |
Bash was the last time I checked...
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You miss the point of my comment: What I mean is that I don't give a sh*t about non-windows languages and that no intelligent human being ought to do so either! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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And you missed my joke, in a few months Bash is going to be on Windows 10. So long PowerShell!
Then the only downsides to doing Windows apps will be the bloat and vendors... 
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I would have to try it myself and know I was recommending something that would be useful to the person.
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