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...depending on what kind of development you're doing.
If you're doing heavy .NET work, then full Visual Studio if what you want. I've found VS Code very useful for .NET Core and Typescript development, though. Good Intellisense and even some refactoring support. This is true for F# as well.
I've also enjoyed using it for Node.js, Python, and PHP development. It goes well beyond just syntax highlighting; in all of these languages, I've had debugger and breakpoint support working, which has come in handy. Code completion/Intellisense has also worked quite well. Not quite as well as with a statically typed language, but still enough to be very useful. This especially true in the case of JavaScript development; VS Code lets you you TypeScript type definition files even when you're developing in JS, not TS. The editor is very good at understanding JS modules and imports...which, combined with TS definition support, means I've been able to do Node.js development with full Intellisense support. I hate relying on code completion in place of actually understanding the APIs and libraries I'm using, but it's still nice to have.
Overall, I've enjoyed using VS Code. Its easy extensibility means that many people have extended its capabilities beyond what it ships with. I've even found pretty decent support in it for more esoteric languages like Haskell.
modified 19-Jul-16 7:44am.
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It tries hard, but in it's attempts to be all things to all people, it is big, resource hungry, and slow.
Eclipse does it better, is more intuitive, and it's support for .Net is superb.
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chaz-chance wrote: Eclipse does it better
AFAIK no one ever said that before. Ever.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Maybe we just witness the first and only person in recorded history to say it! 
What an historical moment! 
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I knew the importance of this moment. I had a tear in my eye and joy and satisfaction in my heart while posting the response.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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haha! I bet you did! 
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I want some of what the OP is smoking.
Jeremy Falcon
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I have seen multiple Java developer coming to me asking that eclipse is way too slower when opening angular 2 projects (or projects with large number of files, (in angular 2, due to node_modules)).
I suggested them VS Code and they are quite happy with it for client side development. 
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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I am not sure about Eclipse but in my IDE I set the node modules directories to be excluded from the IDEs project, so those tons of files are not indexed, I assume Eclipse has same problem, it is indexing lots of files and building a lot of data structures to help in features like completion and code analyse, so if those devs are missing some Eclipse feature they may try to make Eclipse ignore the node modules and maybe other folders and files(the javascript combined/minified/ugliffied generated files)
simion314
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Thank you for setting my week up right. I haven't had that good of a laugh for a bit.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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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.
Greetings from Germany
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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? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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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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?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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