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On Fri, 24 May 2024 23:08:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2024 17:35:33 -0400, Joel wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>>I don’t know why we care about a piece of software which is useless for
>>>non-Windows development, and barely copes with Windows-only development
>>>as it is.
>> 
>> I didn't buy it, but it is an outstanding value, to get the paid
>> version for $40.
> 
> If Visual Studio is so wonderful, why is there Visual Studio Code?

It's really an entirely different animal. One nice feature of Visual 
Studio is the available templates for various projects although they 
aren't necessary. There is better support for WinForms and WPf, installer 
creation, and so forth. You can get by with dotnet and MSBuild but it's a 
lot more work. 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/with-visual-
studio-code?pivots=dotnet-8-0

That shows creating a project using dotnet on the command line. dwiw if 
the dotnet SDK is installed on Linux it is the same procedure. 

VSCode has a lot of extensions that I don't think are available in Visual 
Studio workloads. For example I have Pylance installed for general Python 
work, MicroPico for working with the Pico W, PlatformIO for  Arduinos and 
other boards, Jupyter notebook support, C/C#/C++ extensions, and a few 
others.

That's on both my Windows and Linux machines. Visual Studio is Windows 
only.